Jimmy Fazzino's "World Beats" (2016)

Hanover, New Hampshire, US: Dartmouth University Press (book, essays), 2016.
9" x 6" x 0.75", 258 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-1-61168-898-6.

World Beats: Beat Generation and the Worlding of U.S. Literature by Jimmy Fazzino, as published by Dartmouth University Press (Hanover, New Hampshire, US) in 2016.  A book on Beat literature from a transnational perspective.

This includes, in chapter 4, “Cut-Ups and Composite Cities: The Latin American Origins of Naked Lunch”, pp. 128-161.

Contents: 

• Introduction: Worlding the Beats
• 1. A World, a Sweet Attention: Jack Kerouac's Subterranean Itineraries
• 2. The Beat Manifesto: Avant-Garde Poetics, Black Power, and the Worlded Circuits of African American Beat Writing
• 3. A Multilayered Inspiration: Philip Lamantia, Beat Poet
• 4. Cut-Ups and Composite Cities: The Latin American Origins of Naked Lunch
• 5. For Africa...for the World: Brion Gysin and the Postcolonial Beat Novel
• 6. Columbus Avenue Revisited: Maxine Hong Kingston and the Post-Beat Canon
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Credits
• Index