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JACK KEROUAC (1922-1969), THE BEAT MOVEMENT - Coggle Diagram
JACK KEROUAC (1922-1969)
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THE BEATNIK
a term invented by a journalist of the San Francisco Chronicle in 1958 merging Beat and Sputnik (the earth satellite launched by Soviet Union striking fear among Americans)
indicated people who:
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wore long hair, worn-out jeans, old T-shirts and grew beards
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created an underground culture (poetry, Zen Buddhism)
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LANGUAGE
hip-talk
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vital, alive, authentic and opposed to conventional language
BEAT GENERATION
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introduced to the public in 1952 when one of Kerouac's friend wrote the article This is the Beat Generation for The New York Times magazine
Beat:
'down and out', poor and exhausted
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Key ideas:
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alternative spiritualities (Eastern religion, mind-altering drugs)
On the road
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Sal Paradise, the narrator, stands for Kerouac himself
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STYLE
spontaneous, escape from T.S. Eliot's impersonality of the artist
It was drizzling and mysterious at the beginning of our journey. [...] Here we go! [...] And we moved!
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