ENGL 3351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: The Beat Generation, Beat Generation, Diane Di Prima

• School: University of Houston
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 3351
• Professor: Sarah Ehlers

Document Summary

Don"t want to be a cog in a corporation. The generation suffers from a lack of social construct: creating/needing social construct for . The beat generation evolved in 1940s and 50s in nyc and on the west coast but san. Group of writers and poets including, among others, William s. burroughs, jack kerouac, diane di prima, anne waldman, michael mcclure, gary. The beats were about subversion of mainstream culture and the breaking of conventional literary form. It was a fight against social conformity and they used hallucinogenic drugs to achieve higher consciousness.