Full Description
Explores the challenges and significance of experimental writing
Offers a forum for reflecting on the significance of avant-garde writing for the twenty-first century Explores the way in which contemporary experimental writers engage with socio-political issues Utilizes unpublished archive materials bringing to light a number of previously unpublished worksIncludes innovative readings of significant avant-garde writers previously neglected in the critical canonBringing together internationally leading scholars whose work engages with the continued importance of literary experiment, this book takes up the question of 'reading' in the contemporary climate from culturally and linguistically diverse perspectives. New reading practices are both offered and traced in avant-garde writers across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including John Cage, Kathy Acker, Charles Bernstein, Erica Hunt, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Rosmarie Waldrop, Joan Retallack, M. NourbeSe Philip, Caroline Bergvall, Uljana Wolf, Samantha Gorman and Dave Jhave Johnston, among others. Exploring the socio-political significance of literary experiment, the book yields new critical approaches to reading avant-garde writing.
Contents
AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsPrefaceCharles Bernstein
Introduction: Reading Experimental Writing, Georgina Colby
1. 'Fog is My Land' A Citizenship of Mutual Estrangement in the Painted Books of Etel Adnan, Jennifer Scappettone
2. Reading Happily with John Cage, Lyn Hejinian, and Others, Alex Houen
3. Experiment, Inscription and the Archive: Kathy Acker's Manuscript Practice, Georgina Colby
4. Rereading Race and Commodity Form in Erica Hunt's "Piece Logic", Chris Chen
5. Contemporary Experimental Translations and Translingual Poetics, Sophie Seita
6. On Joan Retallack's Memnoir: Investigating 'the Experience of Experiencing', erica kaufman
7. A Queer Response to Caroline Bergvall's Hyphenated Practice: Toward an Interdependent Model of Reading, Susan Rudy
8. Reading Language Art on Digital Media: Reconfigurations of Experimental Practices, John Cayley 9. Charles Bernstein's Walter Benjamin, Among Other Things, Peter Jaeger
Notes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex
