A world, a sweet attention: Jack Kerouac's subterranean itineraries -- The Beat manifesto: avant-garde poetics, Black Power, and the worlded circuits of African American Beat writing -- A multilayered inspiration: Philip Lamantia, Beat poet -- Cut-ups and composite cities: the Latin American origins of Naked Lunch -- For Africa . . . for the world: Brion Gysin and the postcolonial Beat novel -- Columbus Avenue revisited: Maxine Hong Kingston and the post-Beat canon
