{"product_id":"breaking-the-rule-of-cool-nancy-m-grace-9781578066544","title":"Breaking the Rule of Cool: Interviewing and Reading Women Beat Writers","description":"BIOGRAPHY ] LITERARY CRITICISM \u003cp\u003eThe Beat movement nurtured many female dissidents and artists who contributed to Beat culture and connected the Beats with the second wave of the women's movement. Although they have often been eclipsed by the men of the Beat Generation, the women's contributions to Beat literature are considerable. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCovering writers from the beginning of the movement in the 1950s and extending to the present, this book features interviews with nine of the best-known women Beat writers, including Diane di Prima, ruth weiss, Joyce Johnson, Hettie Jones, Joanne Kyger, Brenda Frazer (Bonnie Bremser), Janine Pommy Vega, Anne Waldman, and the critic Ann Charters. Each is presented by a biographical essay that details her literary or scholarly accomplishments. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these recent interviews the nine writers recall their lives in Beat bohemia and discuss their artistic practices. Nancy M. Grace outlines the goals and revelations of the interviews, and introduces the community of female Beat writers created in their conversations with the authors. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough they have not received attention equal to the men, women Beat writers rebelled against mainstream roles for young women and were exuberant participants in creating the Beat scene. Mapping their unique identities in the Beat movement, Ronna C. Johnson shows how their poetry, fiction, and memoirs broke the male rule that defined Beat women as silent bohemian \"chicks\" rather than artistic peers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBreaking the Rule of Cool\u003c\/i\u003e combines the interviews with literary criticism and biography to illustrate the vivacity and intensity of women Beat writers, and argues that American literature was revitalized as much by the women's work as by that of their male counterparts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNancy M. Grace, a professor of English at the College of Wooster, is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Feminized Male Character in Twentieth-Century Literature\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eContemporary Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eBeat Scene\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eArtful Dodge\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRonna C. Johnson, a lecturer in English and American Studies at Tufts University, has been published in \u003ci\u003eCollege Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eReview of Contemporary Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003ePoetry Project Newsletter\u003c\/i\u003e. Johnson and Grace are the editors of and contributors to \u003ci\u003eGirls Who Wore Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nancy M. Grace,Ronna C. Johnson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1578066549\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781578066544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/22\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 295\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 5.92w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2004 pg. 483\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nancy M. Grace","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48088584487167,"sku":"9781578066544","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ab4f9c1d-36ad-46f4-bb74-1e1dd7c07a97.jpg?v=1769105584","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/breaking-the-rule-of-cool-nancy-m-grace-9781578066544","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}