| Beat Feminisms: Aesthetics, Literature, Gender, Activism Contributor(s): MacKay, Polina (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415892716 ISBN-13: 9780415892711 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Women Authors - Social Science | Gender Studies - Literary Criticism | Feminist |
| Dewey: 810.992 |
| LCCN: 2021032357 |
| Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.93 lbs) 172 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. Beat Feminisms argues that these writers' feminism evolved over time, but retained a focus on intertextuality, on visions of transformation, on revisions of patriarchal discourses, on gender and on interventionist poetics within the context of activism. The book shows how these Beat feminisms counteract the ways in which women have been undermined, possessed or silenced. |