Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement

Diasporic Avant-Gardes draws into dialogue two differing traditions of poetic practice: the diasporic and the avant-garde. This interdisciplinary collection examines 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 and language use that inform their poetics.

Author: C. Noland
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 04/04/2011
Pages: 274
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230102729

About the Author
CARRIE NOLAND is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, USA.
BARRETT WATTEN is Professor of English at Wayne State University, USA.