Diasporic Avant-Gardes Experimental Poetics

Diasporic Avant-Gardesdraws into dialogue twodiffering traditions ofpoetic practice: the diasporic and the avant-garde. This interdisciplinary collectionexamines 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 andlanguage use that inform their poetics

Carrie Noland is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Poetry at Stake: Lyric Aesthetics and the Challenge of Technology and Agency and Embodiment: Performing Gestures/Producing Culture. Barrett Watten is a Professor of English at Wayne State University. He is a language-centered poet and critic and his study, The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics received the Ren Wellek Prize in 2004. He is the author of the poetry collections Frame: 1971-1990, Bad History, and Progress/Under Erasure and a co-author of the Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiogrophy.

Introduction--Carrie Noland and Barrett Watten * Aimé Césaire and the Syntax of Influence--Brent Edwards * Alan Sondheim’s Internet Diaspora--Maria Damon * Remediation and Diaspora: Kamau Brathwaite’s Video-Style--Carrie Noland * Re-opening a Poetics of Re-openings (a.k.a. ‘Naked Strategic Partners’)--Rodrigo Toscano * On the Outskirts of Form: Cosmopoetics in the Shadow of NAFTA--Michael Davidson * Franco Luambo Makiadi’s Universalism
and Avant-Garde Particularity--Barrett Watten * ah noh musik dat: Speech in the Discourse of Nationalism--Mark McMorris * On the Nomadic Circulation of Contemporary Poetics
Between Europe, North America, and the Maghreb--Pierre Joris * Diaspora and the Avant-Garde
in Contemporary Black British Poetry--Lauri Ramey * Something Nation: Radical Spaces of Performance in Linton Kwesi Johnson and cris cheek--Carla Harryman * From Spanglish to Glossolalia: Edwin Torres's Nuyo-Futurist Utopia--Urayoán Noel * From Bass Cathedral--Nathaniel Mackey* From Vaduz [Performance Poem]--Bernard Heidsieck

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Diasporic Avant-Gardes Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement

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