Polina Mackay

Beat Feminisms (eBook, PDF)

Aesthetics, Literature, Gender, Activism

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000509830
• Artikelnr.: 62906268

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: The Beat Aesthetic
1. Female Subjectivities in Beat Textuality by Male Authors
2. Narratives of Emergence: Diane di Prima's This Kind of Bird Flies
Backward and Dinners and Nightmares
3. Clarity of Vision through Transformation in ruth weiss' Desert
Journal
4. Feminist Revision in Diane di Prima's Loba
5. Radical Interventions: Laurie Anderson, Anne Waldman and Kathy Acker
Do Burroughs
6. Activism, Gender and the Feminist Form in Anne Waldman: Fast Speaking
Woman and The Iovis Trilogy