Beat Feminisms

Aesthetics, Literature, Gender, Activism

Polina Mackay (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

172 Seiten

2023
Routledge (Verlag)
9781032160474 (ISBN)

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This is the first book-length study to read women of the Beat Generation as feminist writers. The book shows how these Beat feminisms counteract the ways in which women have been undermined, possessed or silenced in countercultural spaces.

This is the first book-length study to read women of the Beat Generation as feminist writers. The book focuses on one author from each of the three generations that comprise the groups of female writers associated with the Beats – Diane di Prima, ruth weiss and Anne Waldman – as well as on experimental and multimedia artists, such as Laurie Anderson and Kathy Acker, who have not been read through the prism of Beat feminism before. This book argues that these writers’ feminism evolved over time but persistently focussed on intertextuality, transformation, revisionism, gender, interventionist poetics and activism. It demonstrates how these Beat feminisms counteract the ways in which women have been undermined, possessed or silenced.

Polina Mackay is an Associate Professor of English and Head of the Department of Languages and Literature at the University of Nicosia. She is the Vice President of the European Beat Studies Network and the co-editor of Global Beats, The Beat Generation and Europe, The Cambridge Companion to H.D., Kathy Acker and Transnationalism and Authorship in Context.

Preface

Introduction: The Beat Aesthetic

Female Subjectivities in Beat Textuality by Male Authors

Narratives of Emergence: Diane di Prima’s This Kind of Bird Flies Backward and Dinners and Nightmares

Clarity of Vision through Transformation in ruth weiss’ Desert Journal

Feminist Revision in Diane di Prima’s Loba

Radical Interventions: Laurie Anderson, Anne Waldman and Kathy Acker Do Burroughs

Activism, Gender and the Feminist Form in Anne Waldman: Fast Speaking Woman and The Iovis Trilogy

Erscheinungsdatum	28.09.2023
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9781032160474 / 9781032160474
Zustand	Neuware