Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 227 pages) : color illustrations. |
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Series |
Cultural frames, framing culture
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Cultural frames, framing culture.
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Bibliography |
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. |
Summary |
The first single-authored study on female writers of this generation, Women Writers of the Beat Era offers vital analysis of autobiographical works by Diane di Prima, ruth weiss, Hettie Jones, Joanne Kyger, and others, introducing the reader to new voices that redefine our understanding of Beat--Cover. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Autobiography in literature.
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Autobiography in literature. |
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Autobiography -- Women authors.
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Autobiography -- Women authors. |
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American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Women authors. |
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
Subject |
Beats (Persons)
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Beats (Persons) |
Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Carden, Mary Paniccia. Women writers of the beat era. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018 9780813941226 0813941229 (DLC) 2017054495 (OCoLC)1010986281 |
ISBN |
9780813941233 (electronic book) |
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0813941237 (electronic book) |
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9780813941219 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780813941226 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0813941210 |
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0813941229 |
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