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Beat Myths in Literature reassesses the work of women poets associated with the Beat Generation from the critical lens of revisionist discourses. Using the metaphor and the critical lens of looking back, an act infused with feminist implications after Adrienne Rich (1972), the volume focuses on poetry, fiction, and autobiographical writing to analyze the different ways in which Beat women used revisionist discourses to refashion the Beat Generation and establish themselves as literary and artistic subjects. Offering the first comprehensive study of the use of mythology in the Beat Generation, Beat Myths in Literature: Revisionist Strategies in Beat Women focuses on the specific re-writing or revisioning of mythical texts. As such, it studies the ways in which Beat poets incorporate mythology into their works, both through the feminist reinvention or appropriation of ancient myths, but also by debunking more contemporary myths used to contain women in particular social and artistic roles. Furthermore, this volume expands Rich's notion of re-vision, considering memoirs and autobiographies as factual and fictional re-interpretations of history. Seen through the eyes of revisionist studies and the poets' investment in "personal myth", the book establishes new points of entrance into works that allow us to explore the feminist, political, and poetical relevance of the work of Beat women
Contents
Chapter 1: The Art of Looking Back
Myth and the Beat Generation
When Women Look Back: Political and Aesthetic Considerations
Chapter 2: Joanne Kyger and the Subversion of Discourse
Reevaluation of Female Passivity: Genre Considerations
Uses of Myth and the Mythologizing of the Self
Poet as Editor
Chapter 3: Diane di Prima's Feral Epic Revisionism
Constructing Loba: Some Images
Goddess in a Patriarchal World
Revision and Appropriation: The Mythic and Mystic Discourses
Chapter 4: Anne Waldman and the Scope of Jove
The Gender/Genre Debate: Epic and Female Experience
Dismantling Jove: Poet as Archivist
Myth and the Androgynous Position
Chapter 5: Memoir and the Beat Chick
Beat Chick and the Female Body
The Reversal and Perpetuation of Gender Roles: Independence and Marriage
Beatnik Motherhood: Myths and Realities
Chapter 6: Memoir and Writing (the) Beat
Why memoir? Some Genre Considerations
Writing (in) the Memoirs
Beat Generation Revisited: Stylistic Considerations
Coda: Expansive Revisionism
