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Charles Bukowski, Outsider Literature, and the Beat Movement

Charles Bukowski, Outsider Literature, and the Beat Movement

Clements, Paul

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

Literary FiguresLiterary CriticismGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 041580759X
ISBN13: 9780415807593
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 6 2013
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book uses cultural and psycho-social analysis to examine the beat writer Charles Bukowski and his literature, focusing on representations of the anti-hero rebel and outsider. Clements considers the complexities, ambiguities, and contradictions represented by the author and his work, exploring Bukowski's visceral writing of the cultural ordinary and everyday self-narrative. The study considers Bukowski's apolitical, gendered, and working-class stance to understand how the writer represents reality and is represented with regards to counter-cultural literature. In addition, Clements provides a broader socio-cultural focus that evaluates counterculture in relation to the American beat movement and mythology, highlighting the male cool anti-hero. The cultural practices and discourses utilized to situate Bukowski include the individual and society, outsiderdom, cult celebrity, fan embodiment, and disneyfication, providing a greater understanding of the beat generation and counterculture literature.

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