Discrepant engagement : dissonance, cross-culturality, and experimental writing
Discrepant Engagement addresses work by a number of authors not normally grouped under a common rubric - black writers from the United States and the Caribbean and the so-called Black Mountain poets: Amiri Baraka, Clarence Major, Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Wilson Harris, and others. Nathaniel Mackey examines the ways in which the experimental aspects of their work advance a critique of the assumptions that underlie conventional perceptions and practice. Mackey, arguing that the work of these writers engages the discrepancy between presumed norms and qualities of experience that such norms fail to accommodate, highlights their valorization of dissonance, divergence, and formal disruption. He advances a cross-cultural mix that is uncommon in studies of experimental writing, frequently bringing the works and ideas of the authors it addresses into dialogue and juxtaposition with one another. And he shows that parallels, counterpoint, and relevance to one another exist among writers otherwise separated by ethnic and regional boundaries
Print Book, English, 1993
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1993
Aufsatzsammlung
vii, 313 pages ; 24 cm
9780521444538, 0521444535
27725369
1. Introduction : and all the birds sing bass
2. The changing same : Black music in the poetry of Amiri Baraka
3. To define an ulitimate dimness : the poetry of Clarence Major
4. The world-poem in microcosm : Robert Duncan's "The continent"
5. Uroboros : Robert Duncan's Dante and A seventeenth century suite
6. Robert Creeley's The gold diggers : projective prose
7. The words can be on the page : the graphic aspect of Charles Olson's poetics
8. New series I (folk series) : Edward Kamau Brathwaite's New world trilogy
9. Limbo, dislocation, phantom limb : Wilson Harris and the Caribbean occasion
10. Poseidon (dub version)
11. The unruly pivot : Wilson Harris's The eye of the scarecrow
12. The imagination of justice : Wilson Harris's Ascent to Omai
13. Sound and sentiment, sound and symbol
14. On edge
15. Other : from noun to verb