Diasporic Avant-Gardes

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