The Beats in Mexico / / David Stephen Calonne.
Mexico features prominently in the literature and personal legends of the Beat writers, from its depiction as an extension of the American frontier in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road to its role as a refuge for writers with criminal pasts like William S. Burroughs. Yet the story of Beat literature and Me...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English |
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Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (266 p.) :; 10 b&w, 10 color images |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1 Lawrence Ferlinghetti: The Mexican Night -- 2 William S. Burroughs: Something Falls Off When You Cross the Border into Mexico -- 3 Philip Lamantia: A Surrealist in Mexico -- 4 Margaret Randall: Poet, Feminist, Revolutionary, and El Corno Emplumado -- 5 Jack Kerouac: The Magic Land at the End of the Road -- 6 Allen Ginsberg: I Would Rather Go Mad, Gone Down the Dark Road to Mexico -- 7 Bonnie Bremser: Troia: Mexican Memoirs -- 8 Michael McClure and Jim Morrison: Break On Through to the Other Side -- 9 Joanne Kyger: Phenomenological Mexico -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index |
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Summary: | Mexico features prominently in the literature and personal legends of the Beat writers, from its depiction as an extension of the American frontier in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road to its role as a refuge for writers with criminal pasts like William S. Burroughs. Yet the story of Beat literature and Mexico takes us beyond the movement’s superstars to consider the important roles played by lesser-known female Beat writers. The first book-length study of why the Beats were so fascinated by Mexico and how they represented its culture in their work, this volume examines such canonical figures as Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Lamantia, McClure, and Ferlinghetti. It also devotes individual chapters to women such as Margaret Randall, Bonnie Bremser, and Joanne Kyger, who each made Mexico a central setting of their work and interrogated the misogyny they encountered in both American and Mexican culture. The Beats in Mexico not only considers individual Beat writers, but also places them within a larger history of countercultural figures, from D.H. Lawrence to Antonin Artaud to Jim Morrison, who mythologized Mexico as the land of the Aztecs and Maya, where shamanism and psychotropic drugs could take you on a trip far beyond the limits of the American imagination. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781978828742 9783110993899 9783110994810 9783110993752 9783110993738 9783110766479 |
DOI: | 10.36019/9781978828742?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | David Stephen Calonne. |