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Article: Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists, and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution.
- Article from:
- The Women's Review of Books
- Article date:
- April 1, 1997
- Author:
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The term "Beat Generation" lumps together a lot of the jazz, poetry, painting, fiction of the late fifties and sixties. It's invoked especially for anything related to Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso. The media have squeezed a lot of work and a lot of people under that beat umbrella on the basis of very loose and peripheral connections to Kerouac and his friends.
Women of the Beat Generation does the same thing. Its title is about marketing, not fact. Eleven or twelve of the women Brenda Knight includes were active in the poetry and painting scene on both coasts, beginning in the 1950s. All talented, they are important because of ...