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The Beats in Mexico

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By (author): 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 Kerouacs 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 movements 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. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 463g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Apr 2022
  • Publisher: Rutgers University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781978828728

About David Stephen Calonne

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.

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