"Bowles Beats Tangier" (2008)









Tangier, Morocco: International Centre for Performance Studies (book, anthology, essays), 2008.
9.125" x 6.625" x 0.375", 159 pages, softcover, ISBN 9954-8880-6-3.

Bowles Beats Tangier, edited by Allen Hibbard and Barry Tharaud, produced as an extension of the 2008 "Borders, Beats & Beyond" conference in Tangier, Morocco. Published in softcover by the International Centre for Performance Studies (Tangier, Morocco) in a 2008 first edition.

This contains multiple essays on William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin including:

  • Kurt Hemmer's "Aestheticizing the Revolution: William S. Burroughs in Tangier", pp. 99-106
  • Marianna Salvioli's "Interzone et labyrinthe: William Burroughs et Mohamed Choukri à Tanger", pp. 115-124
  • Amy L. Friedman's "Joanne Kyger's Desecheo Notebook and the Feminization of the Interzone", pp. 125-130
  • Antje von Graevenitz's "'The Third Mind' of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin", pp. 139-146
  • Andrew Hussey's "'Paris is about the last place...': William Burroughs In and Out of Paris and Tangier, 1958-1960", pp. 147-157
This copy was acquired from the Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark (Svendborg, Denmark).

Contents: 
  • Acknowledgements
  • Allen Hibbard: "Introduction: 'A Moveable Feast'"
  • Barry Tharaud: "Language, Noise, Silence: Communication and Community in Bowles' Let It Come Down"
  • Gözde Pelivan: "Sky, Desert, and Infinity: Time, Space, and Self in The Sheltering Sky"
  • Zoubida Hamdaoui: "The Gothic Mode in Paul Bowles"
  • Celia Wallhead: "Why Was Marcel Proust's Le Temps Retrouvé such an Important Book for Paul Bowles?"
  • Marjorie Kanter: "Paul Bowles: Mixing Codes and Crossing Borders"
  • Mohammed Jadir: "Paul Bowles: Auteur in absentia?" 
  • Raj Chandarlapaty: "'So Are You Still Writing about Kif?' Paul Bowles' A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard: Modernist Literary Inventions, and 'Post' Realism: The Makings of Orient Counterculture"
  • Maria Porras Sanchez: "Beat(ing) Tangier: Transgression and Displacement in the Writings of Paul Bowles"
  • Kurt Hemmer: "Aestheticizing the Revolution: William S. Burroughs in Tangier"
  • Regina Weinreich: "Half a Tsphah: Kerouac's Haiku in Tangier"
  • Marianna Salvioli: "Interzone et labyrinthe: William Burroughs et Mohamed Choukri à Tanger"
  • Amy L. Friedman: "Joanne Kyger's Desecheo Notebook and the Feminization of the Interzone"
  • Mieke Kolk: "Rereading Jane Bowles: Between Feminist and Postcolonial Discourses" 
  • Antje von Graevenitz: "'The Third Mind' of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin"
  • Andrew Hussey: "'Paris is about the last place...': William Burroughs In and Out of Paris in Tangier, 1958-1960"

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