Contracultura e indústria cultural: geração beat e movimentos socioculturais na década de 1950 nos Estados Unidos da América

Abstract

The beat generation, in addition to being a literary movement, left its legacy as a counterculture movement in the USA in the 1950s. Themes such as censorship, racism, xenophobia, anti-capitalism and violence were debated by these subjects in their works. Here, in this research, the objective is to explore the relationship between the movement and the cultural industry, from the publication of independent works, to the relative success of these writers later.