Question

The “Beat Generation” was the nickname for _____.

Answer 1

Beat movement, also called Beat Generation, Was an American social and literary movement originating in the 1950's. The answer is A.

Answer 2

The answer is A: a group of writers and thinkers centered in Greenwich Village, New York City, in the mid-1950s.

Literary figures like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, who would later add other writers to their literary movement, like William Burroughs, started sharing a living and creative space in Greenwich Village, New York, were they would explore the senselessness of the American way of life in search for higher spiritual and bodily ideals of liberation and ecstasy. They would later become strong influences of various social movements in the 1960´s and 70´s, though their influence can still be perceived in contemporary literature and society.