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Trials of Arab Modernity
Challenging prevalent conceptualizations of modernity--which treat it either as a Western ideology imposed by colonialism or as a universal narrative of progress and innovation--this study instead offers close readings of the simultaneous performances and contestations of modernity staged in works by authors such as Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Tayeb Salih, Hanan al-Shaykh, Hamdi Abu Golayyel, and Ahmad Alaidy. In dialogue with affect theory, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis, the book reveals these trials to be a violent and ongoing confrontation with and within modernity. In pointed and witty prose, El-Ariss bridges the gap between Nahda (the so-called Arab project of Enlightenment) and postcolonial and postmodern fiction.
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You are the phenomenology
\"You Are the Phenomenology is a cross-genre book--a blend of poetry, songs, lyric prose, and invented forms--that explores the everyday junctures of perception, compassion, and multiplicity. How might our powers of association create shared experiences without distorting the contexts from which those experiences emerge? One of the volume's innovative forms is a poetic series called \"Quadrilaterals\"--four-line poems that present the reader with various ways to leap associative gaps: Quadrilateral : Pinch in Your Heel Soars the mackled sound, kites ago : A Polish boy thinks with accordions, adopts a stammer : When were we first older than we wanted to be : That was our city, our chisel, the corbeil from which we ate\" -- Provided by publisher.
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Freedom Time
Experimental poetry and prose by black writers rejects traditional interpretations of social protest and identity formation to reveal radical new ways of perceiving the world.
Winner, 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language Association
Standard literary criticism tends to either ignore or downplay the unorthodox tradition of black experimental writing that emerged in the wake of protests against colonization and Jim Crow–era segregation. Histories of African American literature likewise have a hard time accounting for the distinctiveness of experimental writing, which is part of a general shift in emphasis among black writers away from appeals for social recognition or raising consciousness. In Freedom Time, Anthony Reed offers a theoretical reading of \"black experimental writing\" that presents the term both as a profound literary development and as a concept for analyzing how writing challenges us to rethink the relationships between race and literary techniques.
Through extended analyses of works by African American and Afro-Caribbean writers—including N. H. Pritchard, Suzan-Lori Parks, NourbeSe Philip, Kamau Brathwaite, Claudia Rankine, Douglas Kearney, Harryette Mullen, and Nathaniel Mackey—Reed develops a new sense of the literary politics of formally innovative writing and the connections between literature and politics since the 1960s.
Freedom Time reclaims the power of experimental black voices by arguing that readers and critics must see them as more than a mere reflection of the politics of social protest and identity formation. With an approach informed by literary, cultural, African American, and feminist studies, Reed shows how reworking literary materials and conventions liberates writers to push the limits of representation and expression.
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The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature
What is experimental literature? How has experimentation affected the course of literary history, and how is it shaping literary expression today? Literary experiment has always been diverse and challenging, but never more so than in our age of digital media and social networking, when the very category of the literary is coming under intense pressure. How will literature reconfigure itself in the future?
The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature maps this expansive and multifaceted field, with essays on:
the history of literary experiment from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present
the impact of new media on literature, including multimodal literature, digital fiction and code poetry
the development of experimental genres from graphic narratives and found poetry through to gaming and interactive fiction
experimental movements from Futurism and Surrealism to Postmodernism, Avant-Pop and Flarf.
Shedding new light on often critically neglected terrain, the contributors introduce this vibrant area, define its current state, and offer exciting new perspectives on its future.
This volume is the ideal introduction for those approaching the study of experimental literature for the first time or looking to further their knowledge.
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The Editor Function
Offering the everyday tasks of literary editors as
inspired sources of postwar literary history Michel
Foucault famously theorized \"the author function\" in his 1969 essay
\"What Is an Author?\" proposing that the existence of the author
limits textual meaning. Abram Foley shows a similar critique at
work in the labor of several postwar editors who sought to question
and undo the corporate \"editorial/industrial complex.\" Marking an
end to the powerful trope of the editor as gatekeeper, The
Editor Function demonstrates how practices of editing and
publishing constitute their own kinds of thought, calling on us to
rethink what we read and how.
The Editor Function follows avant-garde American
literary editors and the publishing practices they developed to
compete against the postwar corporate consolidation of the
publishing industry. Foley studies editing and publishing through
archival readings and small press and literary journal publishing
lists as unique sites for literary inquiry. Pairing histories and
analyses of well- and lesser-known figures and publishing
formations, from Cid Corman's Origin and Nathaniel
Mackey's Hambone to Dalkey Archive Press and Semiotext(e),
Foley offers the first in-depth engagement with major publishing
initiatives in the postwar United States.
The Editor Function proposes that from the seemingly
mundane tasks of these editors-routine editorial correspondence,
line editing, list formation-emerge visions of new, better worlds
and new textual and conceptual spaces for collective action.
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The garbage times : a novella ; White ibis : a novella
\"From the freezing alleys of Chicago to the dew-blanketed bayou of Florida. From bouncing drunks and cleaning up puke to biking through the swamp laughing at peacocks. Freeze to thaw. Filth and broken glass and black water backed up in showers; lizards and Girl Scouts and themed birthday parties. A baby rat freed from the bottom of a dumpster becomes a white ibis wandering the wet driveway after a storm. Goodbye, hello, goodbye. It was the garbage times; it was time for something else. A tale of two tales, connected by a mysterious sunlit portal\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Hand at Work
Focusing on the gestures of giving, touching, showing and handcrafting, this study examines key scenes of tactile interaction between subject and artifact. The readings of this book call for a revision of an optically obscured aesthetics and poetics to include haptic experience as an often overlooked but pivotal part of the making as well as the perception of literature and the arts.
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