Breaking the Rule of Cool

Breaking the Rule of Cool
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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages : 311
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ISBN-10 : 9781628467697
ISBN-13 : 162846769X
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Book Synopsis Breaking the Rule of Cool by : Nancy M. Grace

Download or read book Breaking the Rule of Cool written by Nancy M. Grace and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beat movement nurtured many female dissidents and artists who contributed to Beat culture and connected the Beats with the second wave of the women’s movement. Although they have often been eclipsed by the men of the Beat Generation, the women’s contributions to Beat literature are considerable. Covering writers from the beginning of the movement in the 1950s and extending to the present, this book features interviews with nine of the best-known women Beat writers, including Diane di Prima, ruth weiss, Joyce Johnson, Hettie Jones, Joanne Kyger, Brenda Frazer (Bonnie Bremser), Janine Pommy Vega, Anne Waldman, and the critic Ann Charters. Each writer is presented by a biographical essay that details her literary or scholarly accomplishments. In these recent interviews the nine writers recall their lives in Beat bohemia and discuss their artistic practices. Nancy M. Grace outlines the goals and revelations of the interviews, and introduces the community of female Beat writers created in their conversations with the authors. Although they have not received attention equal to the men, women Beat writers rebelled against mainstream roles for young women and were exuberant participants in creating the Beat scene. Mapping their unique identities in the Beat movement, Ronna C. Johnson shows how their poetry, fiction, and memoirs broke the male rule that defined Beat women as silent bohemian “chicks” rather than artistic peers. Breaking the Rule of Cool combines the interviews with literary criticism and biography to illustrate the vivacity and intensity of women Beat writers, and argues that American literature was revitalized as much by the women’s work as by that of their male counterparts.


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