Freedom Time The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing

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 distinct...

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Main Author Reed, Anthony
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 2014
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition1
SeriesThe Callaloo African Diaspora Series
Subjects
African American
African American authors
American
American literature
History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM
Literature, Experimental
POETRY
Semiotics & Theory
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover Title, Copyright, Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Visions of a Liberated Future PART 1: WORLD ENOUGH FOR A FIGURE 1 Broken Witness: Concrete Poetry and a Poetics of Unsaying 2 Establishing Synchronisms: Sycorax Video Style and the Plural Instant 3 Between Now and Yet: Postlyric Poetry and the Moment of Expression PART 2: ABOVE WHERE SOUND LEAVES OFF 4 Sing It in My Voice: Blues, Irony, and a Politics of Affirmative Difference 5 Exploding Dimensions of Song: The Utopian Poetics of the Cut Postscript: Destination . . . Out! Experimentation, Aesthetics, and Racial Time Notes Bibliography Index
  • Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Visions of a Liberated Future -- PART 1: WORLD ENOUGH FOR A FIGURE -- 1 Broken Witness: Concrete Poetry and a Poetics of Unsaying -- 2 Establishing Synchronisms: Sycorax Video Style and the Plural Instant -- 3 Between Now and Yet: Postlyric Poetry and the Moment of Expression -- PART 2: ABOVE WHERE SOUND LEAVES OFF -- 4 Sing It in My Voice: Blues, Irony, and a Politics of Affirmative Difference -- 5 Exploding Dimensions of Song: The Utopian Poetics of the Cut -- Postscript: Destination . . . Out! Experimentation, Aesthetics, and Racial Time -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z