Calonne David Stephen Calonne

Beats in Mexico (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978828735
• Artikelnr.: 72342257

Autorenporträt

DAVID STEPHEN CALONNE is the author of many books, including The Spiritual Imagination of the Beats and Diane di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions. He has also edited five volumes of prose by Charles Bukowski as well as interviews with Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg. Calonne lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan and has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Michigan, and the University of Chicago. He currently teaches at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti.

Inhaltsangabe

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