Allen Ginsberg’s Jeremiad: Queer Utopia, Religious Mythology, and the Undoing of Modernism

“Howl” continues to capture popular and academic imaginations. This article explores the categorical fault lines between modernist and postmodernist epistemologies as they are applied to Ginsberg’s poetic project. Reframing “religion” in postmodern terms, this article argues that even dominative cat...

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Published in:Religion and the arts
Main Author: Murray, Caleb (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: Religion and the arts
Further subjects:B Ethics
B Queer Theory
B Beat Generation
B Poetics
B Capitalism
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Summary:“Howl” continues to capture popular and academic imaginations. This article explores the categorical fault lines between modernist and postmodernist epistemologies as they are applied to Ginsberg’s poetic project. Reframing “religion” in postmodern terms, this article argues that even dominative categories and processes might be refashioned and deployed in the service of emancipatory and (counter)normative ethics and politics.
ISSN:1568-5292
Contains:Enthalten in: Religion and the arts
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02505002