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"Blessed Are the Pure of Heart." Variations on Magical Realism in the Beat Generation: Pathways to Critique and Resistance
dc.contributor.advisor | Anatol, Giselle | |
dc.contributor.author | Lagaron, Elizabeth Marie | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-06-18T20:16:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-06-18T20:16:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009-01-01 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2009 | |
dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10324 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5252 | |
dc.description.abstract | This dissertation explores literary depictions of characters experiencing self discovery as they are presented by three of the writers of the Beat Generation: Jack Kerouac, Elise Cowen, and Diane di Prima. Each of the texts--Dr. Sax, Loba, and Cowen's poetry-- demonstrates how disempowered or oppressed characters evolve, learn to define themselves, and discover a truer sense of self during times of war, struggle, conflict or difficulty. The types of oppression the protagonists and speakers face in these texts is wide-ranging and diverse, but magical realism, and variations on the literary themes presented in magical realism, becomes for these writers a weapon their characters employ for critique and for self preservation against the existing social order. Magical elements allow these characters to reflect their realities and--at best--resist those realities. Pan's Labyrinth is presented here as a model for these specific themes -magic as a tool that can empower the disempowered--and as a lens through which the other texts are read and understood. | |
dc.format.extent | 200 pages | |
dc.language.iso | EN | |
dc.publisher | University of Kansas | |
dc.rights | This item is protected by copyright and unless otherwise specified the copyright of this thesis/dissertation is held by the author. | |
dc.subject | American literature | |
dc.subject | Beat generation | |
dc.subject | Grotesque | |
dc.subject | Magical realism | |
dc.subject | Magick | |
dc.title | "Blessed Are the Pure of Heart." Variations on Magical Realism in the Beat Generation: Pathways to Critique and Resistance | |
dc.type | Dissertation | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Caminero-Santangelo, Marta | |
dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | English | |
dc.thesis.degreeLevel | Ph.D. | |
kusw.oastatus | na | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
kusw.bibid | 6857422 | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |
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