Beat movement & modernist movement:
- experimentalism: obscene descriptions
- rejection of tradition/institutions
- stream on conciousness, no narrative
- requires sacrifice
- alienation for selves
- saw culture becoming materialistic/conformist
- after WWII
- USA emerging as a world power
- threat of commmunism
- HUAAC: House of UnAmerican Activites Commity -- McCarthy
- Counter-culture: cultivate eccentricity, sexual freedon, religious difference, vulgar language, anti-government, madness, hallowness
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