Discrepant Engagement

Discrepant Engagement PDF

Author: Nathaniel Mackey

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1993-09-24

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780521444538

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

Discrepant Engagement addresses work by black writers from the United States and the Caribbean and the so-called Black Mountain poets.

Paracritical Hinge

Paracritical Hinge PDF

Author: Nathaniel Mackey

Publisher: University of Iowa Press

Published: 2018-03-15

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 1609385837

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

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

Gnostic Contagion PDF

Author: Peter O'Leary

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2002-06-24

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780819565648

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

Brings together the study of literature with the psychology and history of religions.

The Other Side of Nowhere

The Other Side of Nowhere PDF

Author: Daniel Fischlin

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2004-03-30

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 0819566829

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

Scholars, composers and performers write about the art of jazz improvisation.

Radical Formalisms

Radical Formalisms PDF

Author: Sarah Nooter

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2023-12-14

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1350377457

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

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.

Defiant Itineraries

Defiant Itineraries PDF

Author: Lydia Platón Lázaro

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1137471808

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

How did Caribbean rituals helped form new currents in the performing and visual arts of the United States? This book answers this question through an examination of the Caribbean-inspired dance creations of dancer/choreographer Katherine Dunham and the experimental films of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren.

How to Live/what to Do

How to Live/what to Do PDF

Author: Adalaide Kirby Morris

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780252027963

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

Adalaide Morris removes the work of the iconic writer H.D. from the various compartments into which it has traditionally been placed, and examines what she terms the 'ongoingness' of her writing, showing her to be a playful linguistic innovator whose writings are relevant to many fields of human activity.

The Anarchy of Black Religion

The Anarchy of Black Religion PDF

Author: J. Kameron Carter

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2023-07-03

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 1478027029

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

In The Anarchy of Black Religion, J. Kameron Carter examines the deeper philosophical, theological, and religious history that animates our times to advance a new approach to understanding religion. Drawing on the black radical tradition and black feminism, Carter explores the modern invention of religion as central to settler colonial racial technologies wherein antiblackness is a founding and guiding religious principle of the modern world. He therefore sets black religion apart from modern religion, even as it tries to include and enclose it. Carter calls this approach the black study of religion. Black religion emerges not as doctrinal, confessional, or denominational but as a set of poetic and artistic strategies for improvisatory living and gathering. Potentiating non-exclusionary belonging, black religion is anarchic, mystical, and experimental: it reveals alternative relationalities and visions of matter that can counter capitalism’s extractive, individualistic, and imperialist ideology. By enacting a black study of religion, Carter elucidates the violence of religion as the violence of modern life while also opening an alternate praxis of the sacred.

Orphic Bend

Orphic Bend PDF

Author: Robert L. Zamsky

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2021-08-10

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 081736014X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

Opera, poetics, and the fate of humanism : Ezra Pound and Charles Bernstein -- "Measure, then, is my testament" : Robert Creeley and the poet's music -- Orpheus in the garden : John Taggart -- Eurydice takes the mic : improvisation and ensemble in the work of Tracie Morris -- "Orphic bend" : music and meaning in the work of Nathaniel Mackey.