Book contents
- The Beats
- The Beats
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Get Hip, My Soul: How It All Got Started (1944–1948)
- Chapter 1 The Wild Outré Gang of Columbia Campus
- Chapter 2 Write for Them about Them Personally
- Part II Underground to Literary Celebrity (1948–1957)
- Part III The Beatnik Era and the Profusion of Beat Literature (1958–1962)
- Part IV Beat Politics (1962–1969)
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 1 - The Wild Outré Gang of Columbia Campus
The Beginnings of a Movement
from Part I - Get Hip, My Soul: How It All Got Started (1944–1948)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 February 2020
Book contents
- The Beats
- The Beats
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Get Hip, My Soul: How It All Got Started (1944–1948)
- Chapter 1 The Wild Outré Gang of Columbia Campus
- Chapter 2 Write for Them about Them Personally
- Part II Underground to Literary Celebrity (1948–1957)
- Part III The Beatnik Era and the Profusion of Beat Literature (1958–1962)
- Part IV Beat Politics (1962–1969)
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter explains the origins of the Beat Generation. It recounts the killing of David Kammerer by Lucien Carr, and how this event was fictionalized by Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs in their novel, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks.
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- The BeatsA Literary History, pp. 3 - 14Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020