Janette Gutierrez Jonathan Roque.  Created in 1948 by Jack Kerouac as an underground, anti-conformist youth movement in New York.  Meant for people.

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Janette Gutierrez Jonathan Roque

 Created in 1948 by Jack Kerouac as an underground, anti-conformist youth movement in New York.  Meant for people not to conform into society but to be who they wanted and live the way they wanted.  Was influenced by Romanticism

The time period was post WWII, and became a phenomenon. Many people experimented with religion, drugs, sexuality, they rejected materialism, and the idealizing of exuberant.

 “The Generation” encouraged the youth to live away from the mainstream.  Help steer the direction of the Hippie Movement in the 1960’s  Helped shape the road of American consumerism

 People started to question what they did and why they did it, this started the movement.  People wanted a deeper meaning of life  Created new literature such as, Jack Kerouac’s On The Road and William S. Burrough’s Naked Lunch.

 Poets and Writers were:  Jack Kerouac  Allen Ginsberg  William S. Burroughs  Gregory Corso  Diane DiPrima

 The Beat Generation was created and started in the East Coast, but shortly after it moved to the West Coast with the San Francisco Renaissance. Many people were effected and this changed the society life mainly in San Francisco.

 Internet  The Beat Generation, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia,  Effects on the beat generation, Unknown, s/effectsbody.htm s/effectsbody.htm  Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950’s, Steven Watson,

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