The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century

by Michael Davidson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052142304X
• ISBN13: 9780521423045
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"