Figurations of the Spiritual Squalid in Allen Ginsberg's Indian Journals: Transformation of India in Post-War Beat and American Imagination

This article explores the impact that India had on Beat imagination with specific emphasis on Ginsberg's under-studied Indian Journals, written during his travels in India in 1962-63, and published in 1970. The earlier American literary view of India was dominated by the notion of the spiritual...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gayathri Prabhu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Bath Spa University 2013-11-01
Series:Transnational Literature
Subjects:
Online Access:http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/xmlui/bitstream/2328/27131/1/bitstream