Preface p. ix
Introduction: Teaching the Beat Generation to Generation X Robert Bennett p. 1
Chapter 1 Telepathic Shock and Meaning Excitement: Kerouac's Poetics of Intimacy Ann Douglas p. 21
Chapter 2 "You're putting me on:" Jack Kerouac and the Postmodern Emergence Ronna C. Johnson p. 37
Chapter 3 Beating Time: Configurations of Temporality in Jack Kerouac's On the Road Erik R. Mortenson p. 57
Chapter 4 The Author as Spiritual Pilgrim: The Search for Authenticity in Jack Kerouac's On the Road and The Subterraneans Steve Wilson p. 77
Chapter 5 A White Man in Love: A Study of Race, Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Jack Kerouac's Maggie Cassidy, The Subterraneans, and Tristessa Nancy McCampbell Grace p. 93
Chapter 6 Reconceiving Kerouac: Why We Should Teach Doctor Sax Fiona Paton p. 121
Chapter 7 Word Begets Image and Image Is Virus: Undermining Language and Film in the Works of William S. Burroughs Douglas G. Baldwin p. 155
Chapter 8 Intersection Points: Teaching William Burroughs's Naked Lunch Timothy S. Murphy p. 179
Chapter 9 Allen Ginsberg's Urban Pastoral Terence Diggory p. 201
Chapter 10 "O fellow travelers I write you a poem in Amsterdam": Allen Ginsberg, Simon Vinkenoog, and the Dutch Beat Connection Jaap van der Bent p. 219
Chapter 11 Mountains and Rivers Are Us: Gary Snyder and the Nature of the Nature of Nature Robert Kern p. 235
Chapter 12 Chicanismo's Beat Outrider? The Texts and Contexts of Oscar Zeta Acosta A. Robert Lee p. 259
Chapter 13 The Ambivalence of Kotzeinle's Beat and Bardo Ties Robert E. Kohn p. 281
Chapter 14 "Blissful, Torn, Intoxicated": Brinkmann, Fauser, Wondratschek, and the Beats Anthony Waine and Jonathan Wooley p. 309
List of Contributors p. 335
Index p. 339