Dear Readers, Academics, Scholars,
A call for papers to be included in The Transnational/Global Beats: A Collection of Essays
Editors: Jennie Skerl and Nancy Grace
Publisher: For a Proposal to Be Submitted to Palgrave-Macmillan
It can be argued that the Beats are the only multigenerational avant-garde movement that has achieved transnational status and the only one that has resulted in a mass counterculture. This is an invitation for quality essays that address Beat Generation writers and other artists from the perspective transnationalism and/or globalization.
Possible topics include but are not limited to the following:
1. Beat movements in countries other than the United States contemporaneous with the U.S. movement (parallel with or without direct contact);
2. Interactions, collaborations, and mutual influences between American Beat writers and writers in other countries;
3. Writers/groups that were influenced by the Beats and Beat travels to other countries, specifically younger writers in the 1960s influenced by Beat publications, but also later writers/artists as well;
4. Cultural production such as Beat-related coffeehouses, poetry festivals, little magazines, publishers around the world that show the influence, affiliations, collaborations with the American Beats; also the contributions of organizers, publishers, booksellers, etc.;
5. Discussion of Beat critiques of the postwar capitalism from the perspectives of globalization;
6. Beats and Pacific Rim culture and ecopoetics
7. Beats and geographic areas, such a the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Germany, the UK, Paris, India, Japan, China, Canada, and/or Northern Africa; and
8. Beats and race from a transnational perspective.
Please submit a 500-word abstract by June 1, 2009.
Send the abstract to both recipients (to NGrace@wooster.edu and JSkerl@comcast.net).