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Article: Girls Who Wore Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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Girls Who Wore Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation. Ed. by. RONNA C. JOHNSON and NANCY M. GRACE. New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London: Rutgers University Press. 2002. xvi+295 pp. $69 (pbk $22). ISBN 0-8135-3064-4 (pbk 0-8135-3065-2).
The aims of this book are straightforward and are more than adequately fulfilled. The main aim is simply that of raising the profile of women writers of the Beat generation, and a secondary aim, at times inseparable from the first, is to explore the gender concerns that are raised by Beat. After a foreword by Ann Charters, the collection is made up of eleven essays. Most are devoted to individual writers, apart from the ...