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Transgressive fiction

The first concerned Howl, Allen Ginsberg's 1955 poem which celebrated American counterculture and decried hypocrisy and emptiness in mainstream society.

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The genre of "transgressive fiction" was defined by Los Angeles Times literary critic Michael Silverblatt.

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In the late 1950s, American publisher Grove Press, under publisher Barney Rosset, began releasing decades-old novels that had been unpublished in most of the English-speaking world for many years due to controversial subject matter.

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