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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.

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DATE PUBLISHED: June 1991 DIMENSIONS: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
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ISBN: 9780521423045 AVAILABILITY: Available
LENGTH: 268 pages

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