The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) Book

Although the term "San Francisco Renaissance" is usually associated with the Beat movement, this overview emphasizes how it was in reality a collage of diverse "communities" providing an important context for subsequent counterculture developments.Read More

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    Though the term "San Francisco Renaissance" is usually associated with the Beat movement, it was in reality a collage of different communities, often at odds with one another, whose agendas were social and political as much as aesthetic. These subcommunities provided important contexts for subsequent counterculture developments such as gay liberation, feminism, and the New Left long before those movements attracted widespread public attention. In his study of these various impulses Michael Davidson devotes chapters to central figures such as Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Duncan, William Everson, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, and Jack Spicer. He also examines the important but largely neglected context of women writers in a period dominated by misogynistic views. His final chapter brings things up to date by looking at developments in the Bay Area since the death of Jack Spicer.

  • 052142304X
  • 9780521423045
  • Michael Davidson
  • 28 June 1991
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 268
  • Reprint
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