Diasporic Avant-Gardes (eBook)

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.

Introduction; C.Noland & B.Watten Aimé Césaire and the Syntax of Influence; B.Edwards Alan Sondheim's Internet Diaspora; M.Damon Remediation and Diaspora: Kamau Brathwaite's Video-Style; C.Noland Re-opening a Poetics of Re-openings (a.k.a. 'Naked Strategic Partners'); R.Toscano On the Outskirts of Form: Cosmopoetics in the Shadow of NAFTA; M.Davidson Franco Luambo Makiadi's Universalism and Avant-Garde Particularity; B.Watten ah noh musik dat: Speech in the Discourse of Nationalism; M.McMorris On the Nomadic Circulation of Contemporary Poetics Between Europe, North America, and the Maghreb; P.Joris Diaspora and the Avant-Garde in Contemporary Black British Poetry; L.Ramey Something Nation: Radical Spaces of Performance in Linton Kwesi Johnson and Cris Cheek; C.Harryman From Spanglish to Glossolalia: Edwin Torres's Nuyo-Futurist Utopia; U.Noel From Bass Cathedral; N.Mackey From Vaduz [Performance Poem]; B.Heidsieck