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By Mina Saeed “It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level of the ‘public’, a kind of beatness – I mean, being right down to it, to ourselves, because we all really know where we are – and a weariness with all the forms, all the conventions of the world … It’s something like that. So I guess you might say we’re a beat generation.” ―Jack Kerouac • Citation: • Goodreads.com. Xplore Inc, 2013. Web. 12 March 2013. • Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia Foundation Inc., 2013. Web. 12 March 2013.
Post WWII writers from 1950’s • Praised freedom & attacked materialism • Romanticism, French Surrealism, • Modernism “Every teen goes for a party that’s off beat. You can have a Beatnik party any time of the year, in any weather, anywhere and it’s way out!” FUN FACT they had an interest in Eastern religion "Beat Generation." Wikipedia. N.p.. Web. 11 Mar 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Generation "Beat Generation." The American Novel. N.p.. Web. 11 Mar 2013. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/timeline/beatgeneration.html By Maria Ordonez
Brianna Liseski Fun fact: The Beat Generation writers were strongly influenced by Buddism. “Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”-Jack Kerouac The Beat Generation William S. Burroughs The Movement’s Writers Allen Ginsberg Jack Kerouac "Allen Ginsberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Mar. 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Ginsberg "William S. Burroughs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Mar. 2013. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Burroughs> -Original writers of the Beat Generation -Wrote in a care-free reckless manner -All were friends with one another
Mina Saeed Burroughs THE BEAT GENERATION: The Movement's fiction Kerouac “Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.”- Burroughs The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac - Kerouac’s life and ideals - Jazz clubs, poetry readings, drunken parties On the Road by Jack Kerouac - Travel with friends -Jazz, poetry, drug use Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs - Drug addict “I don’t know, I don’t care, and it doesn’t make any difference.”- Kerouac Fun Fact: Many of Kerouac’s novels feature references to his religion, Buddhism. • Citation: • Goodreads.com. Xplore Inc, 2013. Web. 12 March 2013. • Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia Foundation Inc., 2013. Web. 12 March 2013.