Avant Canada: Poets, Prophets, Revolutionaries

Gregory Betts (Curatore)

Christian Boek (Curatore)

Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2018

Avant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and creative works on a representative array of avant-garde literary movements in Canada from the past fifty years. From the work of Leonard Cohen and bpNichol to that of Jordan Abel and Liz Howard, Avant Canada features twenty-eight of the best writers and critics in the field.The book proposes four dominant modes of avant-garde production: ""Concrete Poetics,"" which accentuates the visual and material aspects of language; ""Language Writing,"" which challenges the interconnection between words and things; ""Identity Writing,"" which interrogates the self and its sociopolitical position; and ""Copyleft Poetics,"" which undermines our habitual assumptions about the ownership of expression. A fifth section commemorates the importance of the Centennial in the 1960s at a time when avant-garde cultures in Canada began to emerge. Readers of this book will become familiar with some of the most challenging works of literature - and their creators - that this country has ever produced. From Concrete Poetry in the 1960s through to Indigenous Literature in the 2010s, Avant Canada offers the most sweeping study of the literary avant-garde in Canada to date.

• Curatore: Gregory Betts, Christian Boek
• Editore: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Anno: 2018
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 350 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 540 gr.
• EAN: 9781771123525

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