{"product_id":"girls-who-wore-black-women-writing-the-beat-generation-paperback-softback-9780813530659","title":"Girls Who Wore Black; Women Writing the Beat Generation (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813530659","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGirls Who Wore Black\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWomen Writing the Beat Generation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRonna C Johnson (Edited by), Nancy M Grace (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813530659\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 11 June 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e318 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eGirls Who Wore Black recovers neglected women writers who deserve more attention for their writing and for their historical role in the mid-century arts scene. This collection of essays reopens and revises the Beat canon, Beat history, and Beat poetics; it is an important contribution to literary criticism and history. - Jennie Skerl (author of A Tawdry Place of Salvation: The Art of Jane Bowles)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eWhat do we know about the women who played an important role in creating the literature of the Beat Generation? Until recently, very little. Studies of the movement have effaced or excluded women writers, such as Elise Cowen, Joyce Johnson, Joanne Kyger, Hettie Jones, and Diane Di Prima, each one a significant figure of the postwar Beat communities. Equally free-thinking and innovative as the founding generation of men, women writers, fluent in Beat, hippie, and women's movement idioms, partook of and bridged two important countercultures of the American mid-century. Persistently foregrounding female experiences in the cold war 1950s and in the counterculture 1960s and in every decade up to the millennium, women writing Beat have brought nonconformity, skepticism, and gender dissent to postmodern culture and literary production in the United States and beyond.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eForeword \/ Ann Charters\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments and Permissions  \u003cbr\u003e Visions and Revisions of the Beat Generation \/ Ronna C. Johnson \/ Nancy M. Grace\u003cbr\u003e The Worm Queen Emerges: Helen Adam and the Forgotten Ballad Tradition \/ Kristin Prevallet\u003cbr\u003e Diane di Prima: ``Nothing Is Lost\u003cbr\u003e It Shines In Our Eyes'' \/ Anthony Libby\u003cbr\u003e ``And Then She Went'': Beat Departures and Feminine Transgressions in Joyce Johnson's Come and Join the Dance \/ Ronna C. Johnson\u003cbr\u003e What I See in Now I Became Hettie Jones \/ Barrett Watten\u003cbr\u003e Who Writes? Reading Elise Cowen's Poetry \/ Tony Trigilio\u003cbr\u003e Snapshots, Sand Paintings, and Celluloid: Formal Considerations in the Life Writing of Women Writers from the Beat Generation \/ Nancy M. Grace\u003cbr\u003e To Deal with Parts and Particulars: Joanne Kyger's Early Epic Poetics \/ Linda Russo\u003cbr\u003e Revelations of Companionate Love\u003cbr\u003e or, the Hurts of Women: Janine Pommy Vega's Poems to Fernando \/ Maria Damon\u003cbr\u003e From Revolution to Creation: Beat Desire and Body Poetics in Anne Waldman's Poetry \/ Peter Puchek\u003cbr\u003e Many Drummers, a Single Dance? \/ Tim Hunt\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography     \u003cbr\u003e Works Cited and Consulted      \u003cbr\u003e About the Contributors      \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52716425216280,"sku":"9780813530659","price":25.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/girls-who-wore-black-women-writing-the-beat-generation-paperback-softback-9780813530659","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}