Modern American counter writing : Beats, outriders, ethnics / A. Robert Lee

Author(s): Lee, A. Robert, 1941-
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Subjects: American literature--20th century--History and criticism
Beat generation
Dissenters in literature
Counterculture in literature
Cultural pluralism in literature
Ethics in literature
Literature and society--United States--History--20th century
Formats: Print
Material Type: Books
Language: English
Audience: Unspecified
Published: New York : Routledge, 2010
Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory
Literary criticism and cultural theory
LC Classification: P, PS
Table of Contents: Introduction. Counter Writing 1
Pt. I. Beats
1. Beat Canon, Beat Shadow Canon 9
2. Beat Speaking Women: Diane di Prima, Joanne Kyger, Anne Waldman 44
3. Black Beat: Performing Ted Joans 58
4. Beat International: Michael Horovitz, Andrei Voznesensky, Kazuko Shiraishi 70
Pt. II. Outriders
5. Gonzo Scripts: Hunter S. Thompson 87
6. A View of One's Own: Joan Didion 99
7. Pirated Words: Kathy Acker 111
Pt. III. Ethnics
8. Ethnics Behaving Badly: Texts and Contexts 125
9. Home and Away: US Poetries of Immigration and Migrancy 147
10. Out of the 1990s: Latino/a Un-bordering in US Fiction 161
11. A Western East: America's China Poetry in Marilyn Chin, Russell Leong, John Yau and Wing Tek Lum 174
12. Insider, Outsider: Japanese America Writing Japan 183
13. Bad Boy, Godfather, Storyteller: Frank Chin 198
14. Manila Tropics: Jessica Hagedorn 212
15. Black South, Black Europe: William Demby 223
16. Rearview Mirrors: Gerald Vizenor 235
Notes 247
Index 277
Notes: LCCN: 2009039061
ISBN: 9780415998116 (hbk.)
ISBN: 0415998115 (hbk.)
ISBN: 9780203858080 (ebk.)
ISBN: 0203858085 (ebk.)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description: xii, 296 p. ; 24 cm
OCLC Number: 259266337
ISBN/ISSN: 9780415998116
0415998115
9780203858080
0203858085

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