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On Webbed Monsters, Revolutionary Activists and Plutonium Glow: Eco-Crisis in Diane di Prima and Anne Waldman

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2020-12-28
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Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo
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Facultades de la UMU::Facultad de Letras
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Humanities (MDPI)
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Filología Inglesa
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https://doi.org/10.3390/h10010004
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Though green readings of Beat works are a relatively new phenomenon, the Beat aesthetic easily meets Lawrence Buell’s criteria for ecocritical texts. Indeed, many writers associated with the Beat movement, such as Diane di Prima and Anne Waldman, often use their work to give shape to environmental concerns. This article studies the development of a green poetics in the work of both di Prima and Waldman. Focusing on works spanning four decades including Revolutionary Letters (1971), Loba (1998), Uh Oh Plutonium (1982) or The Iovis Trilogy (2011), to name a few, the article analyzes the poets’ use of utopian and dystopian images through which they develop a poetics of eco-crisis that opposes the conformism and political tension of the American postwar and its aftermath.
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eco-criticism , green reading , Diane di Prima , Anne Waldman , Beat women
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ncarnación-Pinedo, Estíbaliz. 2021. "On Webbed Monsters, Revolutionary Activists and Plutonium Glow: Eco-Crisis in Diane di Prima and Anne Waldman" Humanities 10, no. 1: 4.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10201/194230
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