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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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022]
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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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Table of Contents:
  • 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