Presented by: Travis Burt

General Overview Also Known as the Beat Generation “Beat” came from Circus and Carnival Argot Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs 1948 San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City

Jack Kerouac  March 12, 1922  October 21, 1969  Lowell, Massachusetts  French Canadian  Started Beat Generation  The Sea is my Brother, The Town and the City, On the Road  Writing disrupted

Allen Ginsberg  June 3rd, 1926  April 5, 1997  Newark, New Jersey  Helpful  Controversial issues  Troubles  “Flower Power”  Musician  Buddhist

William Burroughs  February 5, 1914  August 2, 1997  St. Louis, Missouri  Felt Rejected  Naked Lunch, Junkie, and The Nova Trilogy  Wife  Strugled

The Beginning  Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady and William Burroughs  Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Philip Whalen and Lew Welch  Motivated  Wrote for a purpose

Beat Generation  Drugs  Sexuality  Religion  “Hippies”

Conclusion  20 th Century  Individuality and originality  Goodbye “Old Rules”  Change in media  WWII  People questioned  Beat Generation Lives on

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