Beat Writing

Beat writing was a form of expression that came from the Beat generation. The writing was mostly composed by Beatniks of the late 1950's and 1960's. The writing was a very broad range of artistic forms centralized on individuality. Beatnik writing was more rebellious since their generation fell in a post war era. This is due to the fact that their writing was focused on the individual when everyone in the U.S.A. tended to focus on unity after the war. This Beat writing has been found to be too individualistic to be classified as one certain group. We only know that Beat writing was written by a very small percentage of people and most of its ideas were against the status-quo.

Hope I didn't accidently copy off my source:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/working_with_english/special_issues/literary_fads_and_fashions/Nash_31_07_06.pdf