Introduction: why the Beats? why Turkey? why now? -- Labeling a phenomenon: the Beats as "underground" figures -- Building community outside the mainstream: underground poetix and the Turkish alternative press -- "What's your road, man?" Jack Kerouac's On the road in Turkey -- The Beats on trial: the censorship of William S. Burroughs's The soft machine -- Howling inTurkish: appropriating the many faces of Allen Ginsberg -- Conclusion: the lessons of countercultural drift.
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