FEMALE CONDITIONS
Social Distancing and Beatnik Culture in Joyce Johnson’s Come and Join the Dance, Bad Connections and In the Night
Café
Lisa Smårs
Dissertation in Literature – 15 credits Tutor: Ulf Malm
Department of Literature at Uppsala University
Table of content
Introduction 1
Background 1
Protofeminism 3
Joyce Johnson (née Glassman) 4
Come and Join the Dance 4
Bad Connections 5
In the Night Café 5
Methodology 6
Questions 7
Previous research 7
Conformity, bohemia and education 8 Joining the others – taking the crucial step 12 Sexual experiences – losing your virginity, rape, 16 and the aspect of having multiple sexual partners
Beatnik themes and tendencies 19
Complicated relationships, subjectivity
and feminism 23
Conclusion 29
Bibliography 32
Appendix - Other female Beat writers 36