Beat Myths in Literature

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Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo holds a PhD in postwar American literature from the University of Murcia (Spain) and is currently a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Modern Languages at Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Murcia. Her research focuses on gender and feminism in postwar and avant-garde American poetry. She is co-editor of ruth weiss: Beat Poetry, Jazz, Art (2021), and has published journal articles and book chapters on Beat women and Beat-related poets such as Anne Waldman, ruth weiss, Harold Norse, Diane di Prima, or Joanne Kyger.

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Beat Myths in Literature reassesses the work of women poets associated with the Beat generation from the critical lens of revisionist discourses.

Résumé
Beat Myths in Literature reassesses the work of women poets associated with the Beat generation from the critical lens of revisionist discourses.

Contenu

Chapter 1: The Art of Looking Back

Myth and the Beat Generation

When Women Look Back: Political and Aesthetic Considerations

Chapter 2: Joanne Kyger and the Subversion of Discourse

Reevaluation of Female Passivity: Genre Considerations

Uses of Myth and the Mythologizing of the Self

Poet as Editor

Chapter 3: Diane di Prima's Feral Epic Revisionism

Constructing Loba: Some Images

Goddess in a Patriarchal World

Revision and Appropriation: The Mythic and Mystic Discourses

Chapter 4: Anne Waldman and the Scope of Jove

The Gender/Genre Debate: Epic and Female Experience

Dismantling Jove: Poet as Archivist

Myth and the Androgynous Position

Chapter 5: Memoir and the Beat Chick

Beat Chick and the Female Body

The Reversal and Perpetuation of Gender Roles: Independence and Marriage

Beatnik Motherhood: Myths and Realities

Chapter 6: Memoir and Writing (the) Beat

Why memoir? Some Genre Considerations

Writing (in) the Memoirs

Beat Generation Revisited: Stylistic Considerations

Coda: Expansive Revisionism