{"product_id":"the-beats-in-mexico-david-stephen-calonne-9781978828728","title":"The Beats in Mexico","description":"Mexico features prominently in the literature and personal legends of the Beat writers, from its depiction as an extension of the American frontier in Jack Kerouac's \u003ci\u003eOn the Road \u003c\/i\u003eto its role as a refuge for writers with criminal pasts like William S. Burroughs. Yet the story of Beat literature and Mexico takes us beyond the movement's superstars to consider the important roles played by lesser-known female Beat writers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The first book-length study of why the Beats were so fascinated by Mexico and how they represented its culture in their work, this volume examines such canonical figures as Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Lamantia, McClure, and Ferlinghetti. It also devotes individual chapters to women such as Margaret Randall, Bonnie Bremser, and Joanne Kyger, who each made Mexico a central setting of their work and interrogated the misogyny they encountered in both American and Mexican culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Beats in Mexico \u003c\/i\u003enot only considers individual Beat writers, but also places them within a larger history of countercultural figures, from D.H. Lawrence to Antonin Artaud to Jim Morrison, who mythologized Mexico as the land of the Aztecs and Maya, where shamanism and psychotropic drugs could take you on a trip far beyond the limits of the American imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Stephen Calonne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1978828721\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781978828728\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.20w x 1.10d","brand":"David Stephen Calonne","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44046261059839,"sku":"9781978828728","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_806fc1eb-efa8-4ce8-9651-4c92551ef406.jpg?v=1684983569","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-beats-in-mexico-david-stephen-calonne-9781978828728","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}