Oliver Harris' essay in "Beat Culture: The 1950s and Beyond" (1999)

Amsterdam, Netherlands: VU University Press (book, anthology, essays), 1999.
9.5" x 6.5" x 0.625", 278 pages, softcover, ISBN 90-5383-661-6.

Beat Culture: The 1950s and Beyond, an anthology of essays edited by Cornelius A. van Minnen, Jaap van der Bent, and Mel van Elteren, published by VU University Press (Amsterdam, Netherlands) in 1999.

This includes Oliver Harris’ essay “Queer Shoulders, Queer Wheel: Homosexuality and Beat Textual Politics”, pp. 221-240, which includes a section on Burroughs entitled “William Burroughs, The Ugly American”, pp. 237-239

Contents:

• Introduction
• I. The U.S. Context and the Beats in Europe:
• Douglas Brinkley: "The United States in the Truman and Eisenhower Years"
• Morris Dickstein: "On and Off the Road: The Outsider as Young Rebel"
• Jaap van der Bent: "'Holy Amsterdam Holy Paris': The Beat Generation in Europe"
• II. The Beats as a Counterculture:
• Mel van Elteren: "The Culture of the Subterraneans: A Sociological View of the Beats"
• Rob Holton: "'Real Country and Real People': The Countercultural Pastoral 1948-1971"
• Peter B. Levy: "Beating the Censor: The 'Howl' Trial Revisited"
• Ronald D. Cohen: "Singing Subversion: Folk Music and the Counterculture in the 1950s"
• III. Jack Kerouac:
• David Amram: "This Song's for You, Jack: Collaborating with Kerouac"
• Regina Weinreich: "The Divine Comedy of the Bebop Buddha: Kerouac, Jazz, and 'IT'"
• Duco van Oostrum: "'Born to Play': Discipline and Play in Jack Kerouac's Narratives of Football"
• IV. Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti:
• Allen Tobias: "Mother not Mentor but Muse: Naomi Ginsberg and the Creation of 'Kaddish' (1958)"
• Christine Timm: "'When I Think of Death I Get a Goofy Feeling': Reflections on Death and Afterlife in Ginsberg's Poetry"
• Guy Norbury: "A Post-Generations X's View on Ginsberg"
• William T. Lawlor: "When He Looks at Pictures: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Literary Tradition of Ekphrasis"
• V. Gender and Ethnicity:
• Joyce Johnson: "Beat Women: A Transitional Generation"
• Oliver Harris: "Queer Shoulders, Queer Wheel: Homosexuality and Beat Textual Politics"
• Jonathan Gill: "The Promised Land Blues: Allen Ginsberg and LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka"
• A. Robert Lee: "Chicanismo's Beat Outrider? The Texts and Contexts of Oscar Zeta"
• VI. Epilogue:
• John Tytell: "The Beat Legacy"
• Notes on Contributors