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Author:

Carden, Mary Paniccia, author.

Title:

Women writers of the Beat era : autobiography and intertextuality / Mary Paniccia Carden.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xvi, 227 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Beat generation.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Autobiography--Women authors.
Autobiography in literature.
American literature.
American literature--Women authors.
Autobiography in literature.
Autobiography--Women authors.
Beat generation.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: writing from nowhere -- Intertextual lives: reading the autobiographical texts of women writers of the Beat era -- Truthiness: Diane Di Prima's Memoirs of a beatnik and Recollections of my life as a woman -- Diversification: Bonnie Bremser's Troia: Mexican memoirs and Beat chronicles -- Consociation: Ruth Weiss's Desert journal, For these women of the Beat, and Can't stop the Beat -- Displacements: Joanne Kyger's The Japan and India journals and The tapestry and the web -- Cross-textuality: Joyce Johnson's Minor characters and Door wide open -- Contextuality: Hettie Jones's How I became Hettie Jones and Drive -- Coda: rerouting Beat nowheres.

Series:

Cultural frames, framing culture

ISBN:

0813941210
9780813941219
0813941229
9780813941226

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1010986281

LCCN:

2017054495

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)