Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement
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Paperback. This interdisciplinary collection examines the unacknowledged affinities (and crucial differences) between avant-garde and diasporic formal strategies and social formations. The essays foreground the creation of experimental forms and investigate the specific contexts of cultural displacement and language use that inform their poetics. Editor(s): Noland, Carrie; Watten, Barrett. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 456.
Diasporic Avant-Gardes draws into dialogue two differing traditions of poetic practice: the diasporic and the avant-garde. This interdisciplinary collection examines the unacknowledged affinities (and crucial differences) between avant-garde and diasporic formal strategies and social formations. The essays foreground the creation of experimental forms and investigate the specific contexts of cultural displacement and language use that inform their poetics.
Diasporic Avant-Gardes draws into dialogue two differing traditions of poetic practice: the diasporic and the avant-garde. This interdisciplinary collection examines the unacknowledged affinities (and crucial differences) between avant-garde and diasporic formal strategies and social formations. The essays foreground the creation of experimental forms and investigate the specific contexts of cultural displacement and language use that inform their poetics.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
274
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230102729
SKU
V9780230102729
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99-15
About N/A
CARRIE NOLAND is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, USA. BARRETT WATTEN is Professor of English at Wayne State University, USA.
Reviews for Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement
"This is an important, indeed a crucial project. It will constitute a formative contribution to the discussion of an expanded field of contemporary poetics. The claim the essays make, quite properly, amounts less to a positivity than a negative solidarity that respects the radical particularity of writers and/or movements while noticing their common refusal of traditional forms and identity politics. ... Read more