The New Yorker- Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger May 2014 | Page 9
Literary Movements
The Lost Generation
Post WWI
Earnest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beat Generation
Flourished from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s
Began at Columbia University in New York
Emphasized individual freedom and attacked what
supporters saw as the materialism, conformity,
consumerism, and militarism of 1950s America
“The so-called Beat Generation was a whole
bunch of people, of all different nationalities,
who came to the conclusion that society sucked.”
–Amiri Baraka
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