Contents -- Introduction -- Paul Bowles: Countercultural Beginnings, New Studies of the Orient, Decolonization Poetics -- Port Morseby™s American Anxieties and New Orients: Surrealism, Colonialism, Counterculturalism -- The Other in The Sheltering Sky: Colonial Heterogeneity, White Textualizations of Freedom and Community -- The Sky: Kit Moresby's Hitchhike, Orientalist Domains, and Countercultural Transcendences -- The Spider's House: Islam's Apologia, Death and Post Rebirth: Bowles's Narrative Exploration of Islamic Belief -- A Hundred Camels In The Courtyard and "Post" Fashionings of Moroccan Modernity -- Burroughs's "Interzone Intermezzo": Naked Lunch and the Internationalization of Countercultural Narrative -- The Scornful Cynic on Junk : The Racist Side of William Seward Burroughs and the Limits of Countercultural Narrations -- Burroughs's Naked Lunch and the Radical Casting of Beat through White-Other Sexual Relationality: Colonialism, Counterculturalism, and Postmodernism -- Burroughs's Explication of Sex and History Through Beat Sense- Geographies: The Makings of Hippie and Countercultural Thesis -- Burroughs's Colonial-Postcolonial Other and Counterculture: Prophecy, Modernity and Naturalism: White Sexual Panic and the Making of Orient Challenges to West Humanism and Normality -- Jack Kerouac, the Common Human Story and White-Other Historicity: Beatniks Face the Challenge of Popularizing and Humanizing Otherness -- Literary Origins and Kerouacian Humanism: White Expansions of Consciousness, White- Other Literary and Philosophical Mutuality -- Neal, Yardbird Parker, Miles Davis and White Transcriptions of Jazz and Blues: Duluoz's Deracialized Counter-History.

A Gathering of Homeless Brothers: Kerouac, Buddhism, and New American Translations of Chinese Philosophy: World Bhikkuhood Fights Against Racism Postmodernism, Officialism -- Kerouac Among the Fellahin: The Mexican Conundrum and Counterculture's Rewriting of Mexican Otherness -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.