{"product_id":"the-beats-in-mexico-hardback-9781978828728","title":"The Beats in Mexico (Hardback) 9781978828728","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Beats in Mexico\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Stephen Calonne (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781978828728\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 April 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e290 pages, 10 b\u0026amp;w, 10 color images\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2.5 cm, 0.463 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Calonne's book brings together a mass of description, information, knowledge and quotation to form a wide-ranging compendium of Mexican connections across the Beat field. It should inspire scholars to examine in more depth a literary history too often chronicled in only the colourful but reductive terms of Beat biography.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e— Oliver Harris, Professor of American Literature at Keele University and President of the European Beat Studies Netw\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With \u003ci\u003eThe Beats in Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e, David Stephen Calonne finally fills a critical gap in Beat Generation scholarship—tracing not only the influences of Mexico on the major Beat writers, but on their predecessors, followers, and contemporaries. We devoured this thoroughly researched, beautifully written study. Highly recommended!\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e— Arthur S. Nusbaum, Third Mind Books\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Calonne takes readers on a much-needed tour through the complex, often surprising relationship between the Beats and Mexico, offering insight after insight into numerous writers and their works—a book the size of the Pyramid of Kukulcán.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Steven Belletto, author of The Beats: A Literary History\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eThe Beats in Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e, David Stephen Calonne provides a literary critic's reading of the countercultural movement's relationship with the country whose rich culture was slowly gaining appreciation in the U.S. . . . Calonne's own attitude to the Beats is rather like [Margaret] Randall's attitude to Mexico—he examines the source material thoroughly and is admiring rather than adulatory. . . . His detailed study demonstrates that though their work on Mexico was sometimes naive, the Beats were not callous appropriators—they were well-meaning apologists.\"— Daniel Rey, Writer's Mosaic\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Adds nuance to the popular understanding of the place of the Beats in twentieth-century US literature. . . . The extensive endnotes provided by Calonne invite one to consider the myriad possibilities for future research, allowing the reader to make connections beyond the pages of his book. For that reason, \u003ci\u003eThe Beats in Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e rewards careful reading and scholarly imagination. Furthermore, the narrative Calonne provides is well organized, accessible, and very readable. . . . What \u003ci\u003eThe Beats in Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e offers is an important standpoint from which to revisit the place of 'Mexico' in the literary imagination of foreign visitors to that country.\"— Review of International American Studies\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eMexico 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 \u003ci\u003eOn the Road \u003c\/i\u003eto 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. \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e  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. \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eThe Beats in Mexico \u003c\/i\u003enot 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e  1 Lawrence Ferlinghetti: The Mexican Night \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  2 William S. Burroughs: Something Falls Off When You Cross the Border into Mexico \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  3 Philip Lamantia: A Surrealist in Mexico \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  4 Margaret Randall: Poet, Feminist, Revolutionary, and \u003ci\u003eEl Corno Emplumado \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  5 Jack Kerouac: The Magic Land at the End of the Road \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  6 Allen Ginsberg: I Would Rather Go Mad, Gone Down the Dark Road to Mexico \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  7 Bonnie Bremser: \u003ci\u003eTroia: Mexican Memoirs \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  8 Michael McClure and Jim Morrison: Break On Through to the Other Side \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  9 Joanne Kyger: Phenomenological Mexico \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Epilogue \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  Notes \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Index \u003cbr\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":52685350928664,"sku":"9781978828728","price":21.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-beats-in-mexico-hardback-9781978828728","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}