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The document provides a critical analysis of the Beat Generation movement in literature and art from the 1950s. It summarizes that the Beat writers and artists glorified a detached, inarticulate hero figure and promoted a philosophy of simple negation without purposeful rebellion. Though outwardly individualistic, the Beat artists actually traveled together and conformed to the rules of their own exclusive coterie. The movement came to represent conformity rather than the rebellion it claimed.

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legurb21

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