Teaching Documents by christian greer
In the opening to Howl (1956), Allen Ginsberg glorified "angelheaded hipsters" as the paragons of... more In the opening to Howl (1956), Allen Ginsberg glorified "angelheaded hipsters" as the paragons of authentic religious seeking. Published a year later, Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957) placed this archetype for "hip" spirituality center stage. A cultural landmark for postwar American youth, this visionary travelogue drew upon an older, vernacular cultural of religious dissent. The aim of this course is to sketch the genealogy of this "hip" mode of spiritual heterodoxy from the 1940s Church of the Living Swing to the "hipster witches" of today. In addition to explicating the socio-historical dynamics of esotericism, this seminar will map the intersection of race, class, and gender in the social construction of hipness.
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Teaching Documents by christian greer