The San Francisco Renaissance

Poetics and Community at Mid-Century

By:

Michael Davidson

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Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

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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.

Release date Australia

June 28th, 1991

Author

Michael Davidson

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

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Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

268

Series

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

Dimensions

152x229x15

ISBN-13

9780521423045

Product ID

1976148

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