Allen Ginsberg, ˇ§Howlˇ¨ And The Literature Of Protest
BUNEA VALENTIN LEONARD
GROUP 3A, ENGLISH-AMERICAN STUDIES
ALLEN GINSBERG, ˇ§HOWLˇ¨ AND THE LITERATURE OF PROTEST
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was an important figure in the Beat Generation Movement that took place right before the revolutionary American 60ˇ¦s. Other major beat writers (also called ˇ§beatnicksˇ¨) were: Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. The beat poetry was meant to be oral and very effective in readings. It developed out of poetry readings in underground clubs.(a beautiful image of these secret clubs can be found in the movie called ˇ§Dead Poetˇ¦s Societyˇ¨ with Robin Williams playing the main character). Some argued that it was the grandparent of rap music. The term ˇ§Beat Generationˇ¨ was coined by Kerouac in the fall of the 1948 in New York City. The word ˇ§beatˇ¨ referred loosely to their shared sense of spiritual exhaustion and diffuse feelings of rebellion against what they experienced as the general conformity, hypocrisy and......
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