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Translating the counterculture : the reception of the Beats in Turkey / Erik Mortenson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mortenson, Erik, 1970- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Beats (Persons).
- American literature--Appreciation--Turkey.
- American literature--Translations into Turkish--History and criticism.
- Turkish literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Turkish literature.
- Counterculture in literature.
- Counterculture--Turkey.
- Counterculture.
- American literature--Appreciation.
- Turkey.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 257 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- Introduction: why the Beats? why Turkey? why now?
- Labeling a phenomenon: the Beats as "underground" figures
- Building community outside the mainstream: underground poetix and the Turkish alternative press
- "What's your road, man?" Jack Kerouac's On the road in Turkey
- The Beats on trial: the censorship of William S. Burroughs's The soft machine
- Howling inTurkish: appropriating the many faces of Allen Ginsberg
- Conclusion: the lessons of countercultural drift.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780809336548
- 0809336545
- OCLC:
- 1002419047
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