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The Beats and Their Counterculture
The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association and American Culture
Associations
are holding a series of panels at the next meeting of these groups, March
7-10 2001, in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Sheraton Old Town Hotel. We
have met there for the last two years and it has proved to be a perfect venur
for us, providing as it does the sights, sounds, tastes and museums of the
Southwest.
This call is for papers dealing with the Beat Movement, its origins and/or
its cultural and literary impact on America and the world.
Papers on any of the following authors or groups of authors are welcome:
William Burroughs; Gregory Corso; Diane DiPrima; Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Allen
Ginsberg; Michael McClure; Ed Sanders; Gary Snyder; Charles Bukowski; Frank
O'Hara; Bob Dylan; Philip Lamantia; Bob Kaufman; Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones);
Ray Bremser; Kenneth Rexroth; Philip Whalen; John Clellen Holmes; Jack
Kerouac; Herbert Huncke; Ken Kesey. Commentators like Norman Mailer and Alan
Watts can also be discussed.
Other possible subjects:
Ann Charters (anthologist and commentator of the Beat movement)
Academia and The Beats
The Beats connection to writers such as Dostoevsky and Paul Bowles
The Beats and American Cultural History
Please contact Area Chair Michael L. Baldwin by 1 November, 2000 (address below).
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