Book contents
- The Beats
- The Beats
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Get Hip, My Soul: How It All Got Started (1944–1948)
- Part II Underground to Literary Celebrity (1948–1957)
- Part III The Beatnik Era and the Profusion of Beat Literature (1958–1962)
- Part IV Beat Politics (1962–1969)
- Chapter 11 The Women Who Said Something
- Chapter 12 Liberating Language
- Chapter 13 The Vietnam Effect
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 11 - The Women Who Said Something
from Part IV - Beat Politics (1962–1969)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 February 2020
- The Beats
- The Beats
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Get Hip, My Soul: How It All Got Started (1944–1948)
- Part II Underground to Literary Celebrity (1948–1957)
- Part III The Beatnik Era and the Profusion of Beat Literature (1958–1962)
- Part IV Beat Politics (1962–1969)
- Chapter 11 The Women Who Said Something
- Chapter 12 Liberating Language
- Chapter 13 The Vietnam Effect
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter focuses on women writers of the Beat movement, focusing in particular on Joyce Johnson and her novel Come and Join the Dance, and the poetry of Elise Cowen, Janine Pommy Vega, Kay Johnson, Barbara Moraff, and Carol Bergé.
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- The BeatsA Literary History, pp. 315 - 344Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020