Introduction: The beat aesthetic -- Female subjectives 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.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature
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