Avant-garde literary community that rebelled against the social and political mores of the Cold War era. The term “Beat generation” was originally coined by Jack Kerouac during a conversation in 1948 with fellow writer John Clellon Holmes. The term encapsulated the feelings of disillusionment and alienation many young people were experiencing during the postwar years. During the early 1950’s, “Beat” took on a different meaning as the members of the new literary movement fused their... więcej

Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2021. 3p.