ALLEN GINSBERG’S “AMERICA” AND CHACAL’S “AMÉRICA AMEM”: COUNTERCULTURE POETRY IN THE US AND IN BRAZIL

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This article aims at making a comparative analysis between the poets Allen  Ginsberg and Chacal by discussing their poems “America” and “América Amem”, from the books Howl (1955) and América (1975), respectively. The comparison of their poetry is based on the concept of Technocracy, given by Theodore Roszak in his book The Making of a Counter Culture. Thereby, two contexts are exposed to the analyses of two different generations: the Beat Generation and the Mimeograph Generation. Although the poets are neither from the same country, nor from the same decade, their poems converge in the sense that they show a criticism about the political actions of each country. However, it is important to consider their divergent points in relation to the different societies to which they were exposed to and how these socio-political contexts affected their books Howl and América. Then, the problem is exposed and the analysis of this study is based on the convergent and divergent points to approach the poetry of Ginsberg and Chacal despite the fact that one is exposed to a technocratic society and the other is not.