Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction A. ROBERT LEE PART I. Canada and Mexico 1 Canada Beats: A Complex Legacy KATHARINE STREIP 2 The Beat Presence in Mexican Literature ALBERTO ESCOBAR DE LA GARMA PART II. The English-Speaking World 3 Beat Britain: Poetic Vision and Division in Albion's "Underground" LUKE WALKER 4 Cosmopolitan Scum: A Genealogy of Beat in Subaltern Scottish Literature FIONA PATON 5 Beat Australia: Hydra to Balmain NICHOLAS BIRNS PART III. Western Europe 6 Êtes-vous Beat? Contemporary French Beat Writing PEGGY PACINI 7 Children of Anarchy: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Italian Beats MARIA ANITA STEFANELLI 8 Beat Influences in Dutch and Flemish Literature JAAP VAN DER BENT9 Transmuting Beat Energies in the Belgian Francophone Matrix: MaelstrÖm ReEvolution or the Brussels Reincarnation of the Beat Spirit FRANCA BELLARSI 10 German Beats: Friendship and Collaboration ALEXANDER GREIFFENSTERN 11 Beat Authorship and Beat Influences in Austrian Literature THOMAS ANTONIC 12 Beat Affinities in Spanish Poetry ESTÍBALIZ ENCARNACIÓN-PINEDO 13 Activists and Stuntmen: Envisioning Polish Beat ANDRZEJ PIETRASZ and TOMASZ SAWCZUK PART IV. Northern Europe 14 Russian Beat: Wilderness of Mirrors THOMAS EPSTEIN 15 Denmark's To Beat or Not to Beat: Turèll, Ulrich, Laugesen LARS MOVIN 16 Norwegian Beat Culture: Reading Beat and Being Beat in Oslo in the 1950s FRIDA FORSGREN 17 Swedish Beat: Sture Darlstöm, Ulf Lundrell and the Influence of the Beat Generation on Modern Swedish Literature LISA AVDIC ÖST 18 Beat Poetry in Finland in the 1960s HARRI VEIVO PART V. The Mediterranean 19 The Beat Generation and Contemporary Greek Poetry POLINA MACKAY 20 Beat Turkey: A Belated Influence ERIK MORTENSON 21 Moroccan Beat Writers: Mrabet, Choukri, Layachi EL HABIB LOUAI PART VI. The East 22 Beat Japan: Shiraishi's Jazz Scroll and Sakaki's Foot Trail A.

ROBERT LEE 23 The Beats on China and Chinese "Beats": Cross Cultural Influences, Impact and Legacy BENJAMIN J. HEAL Index.