Discrepant Engagement
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Discrepant Engagement
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Author : Nathaniel Mackey
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1993-09-24
Discrepant Engagement written by Nathaniel Mackey and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-09-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
Discrepant Engagement addresses work by black writers from the United States and the Caribbean and the so-called Black Mountain poets.
Discrepant Engagement
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Author : Nathaniel Mackey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Discrepant Engagement written by Nathaniel Mackey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with African Americans categories.
Paracritical Hinge
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Author : Nathaniel Mackey
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2018-03-15
Paracritical Hinge written by Nathaniel Mackey and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Paracritical Hinge is a collection of varied yet interrelated pieces highlighting Nathaniel Mackey’s multifaceted work as writer and critic. It embraces topics ranging from Walt Whitman’s interest in phrenology to the marginalization of African American experimental writing; from Kamau Brathwaite’s “calibanistic” language practices to Federico García Lorca’s flamenco aesthetic of duende and its continuing repercussions; from H. D.’s desert measure and coastal way of knowing to the altered spatial disposition of Miles Davis’s trumpet sound; from Robert Duncan’s serial poetics to diasporic syncretism; from the lyric poem’s present-day predicaments to gnosticism. Offering illuminating commentary on these and other artists including Amiri Baraka, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Wilson Harris, Jack Spicer, John Coltrane, Jay Wright, and Bob Kaufman, Paracritical Hinge also sheds light on Mackey’s own work as a poet, fiction writer, and editor.
Gnostic Contagion
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Author : Peter O'Leary
language : en
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Release Date : 2002-06-24
Gnostic Contagion written by Peter O'Leary and has been published by Wesleyan University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-06-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
Brings together the study of literature with the psychology and history of religions.
Poetic Investigations
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Author : Paul Naylor
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 1999
Poetic Investigations written by Paul Naylor and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.
This text studies five contemporary writers whose radical engagements with poetic form and political content shed new light on issues of race, class and gender. In a detailed reading of three American poets - Susan Howe, Nathaniel Mackey and Lyn Hejinian, and two Caribbean poets, Kamau Brathwaite and M. Nourbese Philip, the book argues that these writers have produced new forms of poetry that address the holes in history that more traditional forms of poetry neglect. By refusing to limit their work to lyrical expressions of personal experience, it maintains that these writers produce poetry that explores the linguistic, historical and political conditions of contemporary culture, advancing a formally and thematically challenging critique of the ways in which women and people of colour are represented. Far from constituting a unified school of poetry however, the book argues that these five writers represent different facets of the various kinds of poetic practice taking place on the margins of contemporary culture.
Matter Magic And Spirit
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Author : David Murray
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2013-04-23
Matter Magic And Spirit written by David Murray and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-23 with Religion categories.
The spiritual and religious beliefs and practices of Native Americans and African Americans have long been sources of fascination and curiosity, owing to their marked difference from the religious traditions of white writers and researchers. Matter, Magic, and Spirit explores the ways religious and magical beliefs of Native Americans and African Americans have been represented in a range of discourses including anthropology, comparative religion, and literature. Though these beliefs were widely dismissed as primitive superstition and inferior to "higher" religions like Christianity, distinctions were still made between the supposed spiritual capacities of the different groups. David Murray's analysis is unique in bringing together Indian and African beliefs and their representations. First tracing the development of European ideas about both African fetishism and Native American "primitive belief," he goes on to explore the ways in which the hierarchies of race created by white Europeans coincided with hierarchies of religion as expressed in the developing study of comparative religion and folklore through the nineteenth century. Crucially this comparative approach to practices that were dismissed as conjure or black magic or Indian "medicine" points as well to the importance of their cultural and political roles in their own communities at times of destructive change. Murray also explores the ways in which Indian and African writers later reformulated the models developed by white observers, as demonstrated through the work of Charles Chesnutt and Simon Pokagon and then in the later conjunctions of modernism and ethnography in the 1920s and 1930s, through the work of Zora Neale Hurston, Zitkala Sa, and others. Later sections demonstrate how contemporary writers including Ishmael Reed and Leslie Silko deal with the revaluation of traditional beliefs as spiritual resources against a background of New Age spirituality and postmodern conceptions of racial and ethnic identity.
Territories Of The Soul
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Author : Nadia Ellis
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2015-08-27
Territories Of The Soul written by Nadia Ellis and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-27 with Social Science categories.
Nadia Ellis attends to African diasporic belonging as it comes into being through black expressive culture. Living in the diaspora, Ellis asserts, means existing between claims to land and imaginative flights unmoored from the earth—that is, to live within the territories of the soul. Drawing on the work of Jose Muñoz, Ellis connects queerness' utopian potential with diasporic aesthetics. Occupying the territory of the soul, being neither here nor there, creates in diasporic subjects feelings of loss, desire, and a sensation of a pull from elsewhere. Ellis locates these phenomena in the works of C.L.R. James, the testy encounter between George Lamming and James Baldwin at the 1956 Congress of Negro Artists and Writers in Paris, the elusiveness of the queer diasporic subject in Andrew Salkey's novel Escape to an Autumn Pavement, and the trope of spirit possession in Nathaniel Mackey's writing and Burning Spear's reggae. Ellis' use of queer and affect theory shows how geographies claim diasporic subjects in ways that nationalist or masculinist tropes can never fully capture. Diaspora, Ellis concludes, is best understood as a mode of feeling and belonging, one fundamentally shaped by the experience of loss.
The Other Side Of Nowhere
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Author : Daniel Fischlin
language : en
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Release Date : 2004-03-30
The Other Side Of Nowhere written by Daniel Fischlin and has been published by Wesleyan University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-30 with Music categories.
Scholars, composers and performers write about the art of jazz improvisation.
Radical Formalisms
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Author : Sarah Nooter
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-12-14
Radical Formalisms written by Sarah Nooter and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
The term "radical formalism" refers to strategies aimed at defamiliarising and revitalising conventional modes of formalistic reading and theorising form. These strategies disrupt and unsettle established norms while incorporating a metadiscursive awareness of their broader political implications. This volume presents a radical reconceptualisation of literary works from Greek and Roman antiquity. Engaging in an ongoing dialogue with critical theory and postcritique, as well as drawing inspiration from traditions rooted in Black art, poetry and philosophy-both directly and indirectly connected to the classical tradition-the essays in this collection explore subversions of canonical norms and resistances to the hegemony of textual order. This collection not only provides new, provocative insights into a corpus of texts that has exerted a lasting impact on modern literature and philosophy, but also challenges current interpretive methods, recasting the very practice of reading in relation to form, poetics, language, sound, temporalities and textuality.
Pope L
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Author : The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2019-04-10
Pope L written by The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-10 with Art categories.
Iconoclast and artist Pope.L uses the body, sex, and race as his materials the way other artists might use paint, clay, or bronze. His work problematizes social categories by exploring how difference is marked economically, socially, and politically. Working in a range of media from ketchup to baloney to correction fluid, with a special emphasis on performativity and writing, Pope.L pokes fun at and interrogates American society’s pretenses, the bankruptcy of contemporary mores, and the resulting repercussions for a civil society. Other favorite Pope.L targets are squeamishness about the human body and the very possibility of making meaning through art and its display. Published to accompany his wonderfully inscrutable exhibition Forlesen at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Pope.L: Showing Up to Withhold is simultaneously an artist’s book and a monograph. In addition to reproductions of a number of his most recent artworks, it includes images of significant works from the past decade, and presents a forum for reflection and analysis on art making today with contributions by renowned critics and scholars, including Lawrie Balfour, Nick Bastis, Lauren Berlant, and K. Silem Mohammad.