Polina Mackay

Broschiertes Buch

Beat Feminisms

Aesthetics, Literature, Gender, Activism

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9781032160474
• ISBN-10: 1032160470
• Artikelnr.: 63428188

Rezensionen

"Beat Feminisms is a deeper gnosis of the complexity always operative in tandem to the male Beats dominance over a range of activist women poets, often underestimated and overlooked. What a welcome reckoning and investigation, vibrant and original, adding a new vortex for Beat Lit. A refreshed lens, and context."-Anne Waldman

"A feminist agenda has been at work for over two decades in Beat Studies, but Polina Mackay's book is the first to 'thicken the plot' by exploring the major women poets both broadly and in close textual detail. Demonstrating an expert eye for tracing the intertextualities of literary history, she examines with particular force the feminist revisionary aesthetics of Diane di Prima and Anne Waldman,

while engaging in her own writing back by revising the position of Burroughs as a paradoxical launch pad for the radical art of Laurie Anderson, Patti Smith, and Kathy Acker. Written and organized with pedagogic clarity, Beat Feminisms makes an invaluable vademecum for anyone interested in the intersections of gender, poetics and politics"- Oliver Harris, President of the European Beat Studies Network

"One of the great reclamations in American writing has been that of Beat authorship by women. Polina Mackay's new study contributes stirringly to that understanding and to its map. This is feminist critique with spirit, informed literary intimacy"-A. Robert Lee, Author of The Beats: Authorships, Legacies

"A fantastic updating of Beat feminist scholarship...timely and needed"- Chad Weidner, Author of The Green Ghost: William Burroughs and the Ecological Mind

"Mackay's book will become the latest reference for any scholar of Beat women's writing. It offers an engaging account of these authors' influences, their relationship with feminism, and the transformation of Beat discourses in their work" - Isabel Castelao-Gomez, Co-Author of Female Beatness: Mujeres Poetas de la Generacion Beat