The Beats and the Academy<\/i> marks the first sustained effort to train a scholarly eye on the dynamics of the relationship between Beat writers and the academic institutions in which they taught. Rather than assuming the relationship between Beat writers and institutions of higher education was only hostile, The Beats and the Academy<\/i> begins with the premise that influence between the two flows in both directions. Beat writers’ suspicion of established institutions was a significant aspect of their postwar countercultural allure. Their anti-establishment aesthetic and countercultural stance led Beat writers to be critical of postwar academic institutions that tended to dismiss them as a passing social phenomenon. Even today, Beat writing still meets resistance in an academy that questions the relevance of their writing and ideas. But this picture, like any generalization, is far too easy. The Beat relationship to the academy is one of negotiation, rather than negation. Many Beats strove for academic recognition, and quite a few received it. And despite hostility to their work both in the postwar era and today, Beat works have made it onto syllabi, into conference presentations, journal articles, and monographs. The Beats and the Academy<\/i> deepens our understanding of this relationship by emphasizing how institutional friction between the Beats and institutions of higher education has shaped our understanding of Beat Generation literature and culture\u2014and what this relationship between Beat writers and the academy might suggest about their legacy for future scholars.<\/p>\n
TABLE OF CONTENTS
\nIntroduction | Erik Mortenson and Tony Trigilio<\/p>\n
I. The Early Development of Beat Studies as an Academic Field
\n1. A (Surprising) History of Early Academic Responses to the Beats | Steven Belletto
\n2. The International Academy and Beat: The Case of the UK and Japan | A. Robert Lee<\/p>\n
II. Beat Alternatives to the Academic Mainstream
\n3. First Thought, Best Thought: Core Poetics at Naropa\u2019s Kerouac School | Reed Bye
\n4. Holism, Antagonism, Proto-Poetics, and Pedagogy Among the Beats | Barrett Watten
\n5. Why I Can No Longer Teach Kathy Acker: A Preface | Carla Harryman<\/p>\n
III. Beats as Teachers: Six Case Studies
\n6. Looking at the \u201cGrowth of a Poet\u2019s Mind\u201d: Allen Ginsberg at the Crossroads of Romantic and Buddhist Pedagogy | Franca Bellarsi
\n7. That Was Allen | David Trinidad
\n8. Anne Waldman as Educator: A Cultural Activist at Work | Polina Mackay
\n9. Rooted Knowledge: Gary Snyder in the Academy | Timothy Gray
\n10. \u201cShort Speech to My Friends\u201d: Amiri Baraka on Campus | Aldon Lynn Nielsen
\n11. Investigating the Pedagogy and Legacy of Ed Sanders\u2019s Investigative Poetry | Nancy M. Grace and Rocko Foltz<\/p>\n
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