How Long to Read Translating the Counterculture

How Long Does it Take to Read Translating the Counterculture?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 40 minutes to read Translating the Counterculture by Erik Mortenson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In Turkey the Beat message of dissent is being given renewed life as publishers, editors, critics, readers, and others dissatisfied with the conservative social and political trends in the country have turned to the Beats and other countercultural forebears for alternatives. Through an examination of a broad range of literary translations, media portrayals, interviews, and other related materials, this book seeks to uncover how the Beats and their texts are being circulated, discussed, and used in Turkey to rethink the possibilities they might hold for social critique today. Mortenson examines how in Turkey the Beats have been framed by the label “underground literature”; explores the ways they are repurposed in the counterculture-inspired journal Underground Poetix; looks at the reception of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and how that reaction provides a better understanding of the construction of “American-ness”; delves into the recent obscenity trial of William S. Burroughs’s novel The Soft Machine and the attention the book’s supporters brought to government repression and Turkish homophobia; and analyzes the various translations of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl to demonstrate the relevance Ginsberg still holds for social rebellion today. Translating the Counterculture takes a revolutionary look at how contemporary readers in other parts of the world respond to the Beats. Challenging and unsettling an American-centric understanding of the Beats, Mortenson pushes the discipline toward a fuller consideration of their cultural legacy in a globalized twenty-first century.

How long is Translating the Counterculture?

Translating the Counterculture by Erik Mortenson is 280 pages long, and a total of 70,000 words.

This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Translating the Counterculture Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 22 minutes to read Translating the Counterculture aloud.

What Reading Level is Translating the Counterculture?

Translating the Counterculture is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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