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Translating the counterculture

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Title Translating the counterculture : the reception of the Beats in Turkey / Erik Mortenson.
Publisher Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
Creation Date [2018]
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content 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 in Turkish: appropriating the many faces of Allen Ginsberg -- Conclusion: the lessons of countercultural drift.
Extent 1 online resource (280 pages)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2018
National Library system number 997010704048405171
MARC RECORDS
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