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The Beat Generation

The Beat Generation is a term used to describe a group of American writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, and the cultural phenomena that they wrote about and inspired (later sometimes called "beatniks"). In a period in which the institutionally established literary tradition was nervously prude about sex, and even the softcore pornography avoided describing it, the Beat fiction opened new possibilities, pushed the boundaries of what was considered allowed, exploring territories that were strongly felt taboos at the time, causing an "exciting, liberating, strongly positive" cultural effect, which in turn encouraged other writers to stop self-censoring themselves; the reaction to this was a series of censorships and law enforcement excesses. In addition to the alternative forms of sexuality, central elements of "Beat" culture included a rejection of materialism, experimentation with drugs and an interest in Eastern religion.

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The Beat Generation works highlighted the primacy of such Beat Generation essentials as spontaneity, open emotion, visceral engagement in often gritty worldly experiences; in a seeming paradox, the Beats often emphasized a spiritual yearning, using concepts and imagery from Buddhism, Judaism, Catholicism, and so on. Thus members of the Beat Generation sought a synthesis of the "beaten down" and the "beatific," as Kerouac described it. One of the best-publicized aspects of Beat writing is the continual challenge to the limits of free expression; the Beat writers produced a body of written work controversial both for its advocacy of non-conformity and for its non-conforming style.