Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-culturality and Experimental Writing (Modern & Contemporary Poetics) - Softcover

Nathaniel Mackey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0817310320 ISBN 13: 9780817310325

Publisher: University of Alabama Press, 2000

Synopsis

This work addresses the poetry and prose of black writers from the US and Carribean and the so-called Black Mountain poets. It focuses on the experimental aspects of their work to show that they share an implied critique of conventional poetic practices.

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Review:

"Nathaniel Mackey has accomplished his task admirably. Discrepant Engagement demands from us an openness to alternative frames of reference and a recognition of the ways in which traditional categories restrict our own perceptions of the potential for intertextuality among cultures, literary schools, races, regions, and rubrics."--African American Review "Insisting on the political importance of radical innovation without the trappings of intellectual fashion, tempered by an awareness of the historical scale of his assertions, and challenging liberal notions of cultural pluralism and artistic opposition, Nathaniel Mackey makes an important, sophisticated contribution to current debates about cultural diversity and the political relevance of experimental writing."--Contemporary Literature

Book Description:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Alabama Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0817310320
• ISBN 13: 9780817310325
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 214