Women Writers Of The Beat Era

Author : Mary Paniccia Carden
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813941233

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Women Writers of the Beat Era by Mary Paniccia Carden Pdf

The Beat Generation was a group of writers who rejected cultural standards, experimented with drugs, and celebrated sexual liberation. Starting in the 1950s with works such as Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, and William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch, the Beat Generation defined an experimental zeitgeist that endures to today. Yet left out of this picture are the Beat women, who produced a large body of writing from the 1950s through the 1970s and beyond. In Women Writers of the Beat Era, Mary Paniccia Carden gives voice to these female writers and demonstrates how their work redefines our understanding of "Beat." The first single-authored study on female writers of this generation, the book offers vital analysis of autobiographical works by Diane di Prima, ruth weiss, Hettie Jones, Joanne Kyger, and others, introducing the reader to new voices that interact with and reconfigure the better-known narratives of the male Beat writers. In doing so, Carden demonstrates the significant role women played in this influential and dynamic literary movement.

Author : Ronna Johnson,Nancy McCampbell Grace
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813530652

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Girls who Wore Black by Ronna Johnson,Nancy McCampbell Grace Pdf

"Girls Who Wore Black recovers neglected women writers who deserve more attention for their writing and for their historical role in the mid-century arts scene. This collection of essays reopens and revises the Beat canon, Beat history, and Beat poetics; it is an important contribution to literary criticism and history."-Jennie Skerl, author of A Tawdry Place of Salvation: The Art of Jane Bowles "Ronna Johnson and Nancy Grace have done an invaluable service for students of American literature: their collection begins with an essential essay about the three generations of Beat women and then provides fine contributions by critics Anthony Libby, Linda Russo, Maria Damon, Tim Hunt, and others. The value of this book is so clear one must wonder why it wasn't available much earlier."-Linda Wagner-Martin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill What do we know about the women who played an important role in creating the literature of the Beat Generation? Until recently, very little. Studies of the movement have effaced or excluded women writers, such as Elise Cowen, Joyce Johnson, Joanne Kyger, Hettie Jones, and Diane Di Prima, each one a significant figure of the postwar Beat communities. Equally free-thinking and innovative as the founding generation of men, women writers, fluent in Beat, hippie, and women's movement idioms, partook of and bridged two important countercultures of the American mid-century. Persistently foregrounding female experiences in the cold war 1950s and in the counterculture 1960s and in every decade up to the millennium, women writing Beat have brought nonconformity, skepticism, and gender dissent to postmodern culture and literary production in the United States and beyond. Ronna C. Johnson is a lecturer in the departments of English and American Studies at Tufts University. Nancy M. Grace is an associate professor in the department of English and director of the Program in Writing at The College of Wooster in Ohio. She is the author of The Feminized Male Character in Twentieth-Century Literature.

Author : Brenda Knight
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1015461379

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Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists, and Muses at The Heart of a Revolution by Brenda Knight Pdf

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Author : Richard Peabody
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015040578596

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A Different Beat by Richard Peabody Pdf

An anthology of works by 27 women writers of the beat generation.

Author : Kurt Hemmer
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781438109084

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Encyclopedia of Beat Literature by Kurt Hemmer Pdf

Discusses the literary works and great authors of the Beat Generation.

Author : James Campbell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-11-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520230337

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This Is the Beat Generation by James Campbell Pdf

In New York in 1944, Campbell finds the leading members of what was to become the Beat Generation in the shadows of madness and criminality. Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs had each seen the insides of a mental hospital and a prison by the age of 30. This book charts the transformation of these experiences into literature, and a literary movement that spread across the globe. 35 photos.

Author : Carolyn Cassady
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781468305715

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Off the Road by Carolyn Cassady Pdf

This memoir by the woman at the center of the Beat movement is “a great book as well as a wonderful autobiography” (The Washington Post Book World). Written by the woman who loved them all—as wife of Cassady, lover of Kerouac, and friend of Ginsberg—this riveting and intimate memoir spans one of the most vital eras in twentieth-century literature and culture, including the explosive successes of Kerouac’s On the Road and Ginsberg’s Howl, the flowering of the Beat movement, and the social revolution of the 1960s. Artist, writer, and designer Carolyn Cassady reveals a side of Neal Cassady rarely seen—that of husband and father, a man who craved respectability, yet could not resist the thrills of a wilder, and ultimately more destructive, lifestyle. “To the familiar history of the Beat generation, Carolyn Cassady adds a proprietary chapter marked with newness, self-exposure, love and poignancy.” —Publishers Weekly “Rich with gossip, historically significant photographs, intimate memories, [and] unpublished letters.” —The New York Times “A poignant recollection—truthful, coarse, and inviting—teeming with the spirit of the men who inspired and symbolized the dreams of a generation.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Author : Carmela Ciuraru
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780375413322

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Beat Poets by Carmela Ciuraru Pdf

This rousing anthology features the work of more than twenty-five writers from the great twentieth-century countercultural literary movement. Writing with an audacious swagger and an iconoclastic zeal, and declaiming their verse with dramatic flourish in smoke-filled cafés, the Beats gave birth to a literature of previously unimaginable expressive range. The defining work of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac provides the foundation for this collection, which also features the improvisational verse of such Beat legends as Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, and Michael McClure and the work of such women writers as Diane DiPrima and Denise Levertov. LeRoi Jones’s plaintive “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note” and Bob Kaufman’s stirring “Abomunist Manifesto” appear here alongside statements on poetics and the alternately incendiary and earnest correspondence of Beat Generation writers. Visceral and powerful, infused with an unmediated spiritual and social awareness, this is a rich and varied tribute and, in the populist spirit of the Beats, a vital addition to the libraries of readers everywhere.

Author : Jack Kerouac,Allen Ginsberg
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101437131

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Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg by Jack Kerouac,Allen Ginsberg Pdf

The first collection of letters between the two leading figures of the Beat movement Writers and cultural icons Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg are the most celebrated names of the Beat Generation, linked together not only by their shared artistic sensibility but also by a deep and abiding friend­ship, one that colored their lives and greatly influenced their writing. Editors Bill Morgan and David Stanford shed new light on this intimate and influential friendship in this fascinating exchange of letters between Kerouac and Ginsberg, two thirds of which have never been published before. Commencing in 1944 while Ginsberg was a student at Columbia University and continuing until shortly before Kerouac's death in 1969, the two hundred letters included in this book provide astonishing insight into their lives and their writing. While not always in agreement, Ginsberg and Kerouac inspired each other spiritually and creatively, and their letters became a vital workshop for their art. Vivid, engaging, and enthralling, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters provides an unparalleled portrait of the two men who led the cultural and artistic movement that defined their generation.

Author : Nancy McCampbell Grace,Ronna C. Johnson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : American literature
ISBN : 1604735996

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Breaking the Rule of Cool by Nancy McCampbell Grace,Ronna C. Johnson Pdf

BIOGRAPHY LITERARY CRITICISM The Beat movement nurtured many female dissidents and artists who contributed to Beat culture and connected the Beats with the second wave of the women's movement. Although they have often been eclipsed by the men of the Beat Generation, the women's contributions to Beat literature are considerable. Covering writers from the beginning of the movement in the 1950s and extending to the present, this book features interviews with nine of the best-known women Beat writers, including Diane di Prima, ruth weiss, Joyce Johnson, Hettie Jones, Joanne Kyger, Brenda Frazer (Bonnie Bremser), Janine Pommy Vega, Anne Waldman, and the critic Ann Charters. Each is presented by a biographical essay that details her literary or scholarly accomplishments. In these recent interviews the nine writers recall their lives in Beat bohemia and discuss their artistic practices. Nancy M. Grace outlines the goals and revelations of the interviews, and introduces the community of female Beat writers created in their conversations with the authors. Although they have not received attention equal to the men, women Beat writers rebelled against mainstream roles for young women and were exuberant participants in creating the Beat scene. Mapping their unique identities in the Beat movement, Ronna C. Johnson shows how their poetry, fiction, and memoirs broke the male rule that defined Beat women as silent bohemian chicks rather than artistic peers. Breaking the Rule of Cool combines the interviews with literary criticism and biography to illustrate the vivacity and intensity of women Beat writers, and argues that American literature was revitalized as much by the women's work as by that of their male counterparts. Nancy M. Grace, a professor of English at the College of Wooster, is the author of The Feminized Male Character in Twentieth-Century Literature. Her work has appeared in Contemporary Literature, the Beat Scene, and the Artful Dodge. Ronna C. Johnson, a lecturer in English and American Studies at Tufts University, has been published in College Literature, the Review of Contemporary Fiction, and the Poetry Project Newsletter. Johnson and Grace are the editors of and contributors to Girls Who Wore Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation."

Author : David Wills
Publisher : David Wills
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1985-11-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Beatdom by David Wills Pdf

Beatdom is a magazine for all fans of Beat Generation literature. This is the very first issue of Beatdom, containing interviews with Barry Gifford, Paul Krassner, Ken Babbs and Zane Kesey. We also have a talented group of writers and photographers, who have put together a magazine with features relating the Beat Generation to Buddhism, Bob Dylan, Hunter S Thompson and Walt Whitman; and guides to Beat books, websites and stories.

Author : Joyce Johnson
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 0413775593

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Minor Characters by Joyce Johnson Pdf

Johnson's book is a personal memoir and a summation of the times, a story of adolescent rebellion and a desire to choose a different life. She shows how the Beat women, in deciding to break the rules and leave home as unmarried young women in the 1950s, discovered the risks and the heady excitement of trying to live as freely as the rebels they loved.

Author : Anne Waldman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040327236

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Fast Speaking Woman by Anne Waldman Pdf

Author : Christopher Gair
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781780741307

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The Beat Generation by Christopher Gair Pdf

Without them, the Hippies and the Punks would never have existed. The Beat Generation were a revolutionary group of poets, drifters, musicians, and visionaries whose gritty spontaneous prose explored alienation, repression, and what it meant to be a member of the human race in post-WWII American society. Through the iconic personalities of Ginsberg, Kerouac, Corso, and Burroughs, along with women writers, musicians, and artists, Christopher Gair charts the emergence and true significance of the group, revealing how their fresh approach to literature and a bohemian lifestyle created one of the most exciting and important movements in American literature. Half a century after the publication of the modern classics "Howl" and "On the Road", the movement continues to attract scores of new readers, influencing everything from bebop to the Beastie Boys.

Author : Diane Di Prima
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Beat generation
ISBN : 0714530751

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Memoirs of a Beatnik by Diane Di Prima Pdf

Memoirs of a Beatnik is an account of a young artist coming of age sensually and intellectually. The book grew out of the author's own experience as a bold and independent woman who dropped out of college at the age of 18 in order to write.