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Avant Canada : poets, prophets, revolutionaries / Gregory Betts and Christian Bok, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Experimental--Canada--History and criticism.
- Literature, Experimental.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (351 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfred Laurier University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- Time for the Avant-Garde in Canada
- Prologue
- The Collective
- Against Assimilation I Rose into Poetry
- The Centennial
- The Sublation of Obduracy: Nationalism and the Avant-Garde Marketing of Beautiful Losers
- "A Vision in the U of T Stacks": bpNichol in the Library
- concrete poetics
- Words With(out) Syntax: Reconsidering Concrete Poetry: An Exhibition in Four Parts
- Post/Avant Comics: bpNichol's Material Poetics and Comics Art Manifestos
- A Field Guide to North Concrete: Identification Chart
- National and Time
- Continents
- Language Writing
- Transformation or Resistance: The Kootenay School of Writing in Context
- A Poetics of Neoliberalism
- Sleek Vinyl Drill
- Pillage 12 ("Anaximenes")
- If Violence (Hey You)
- Identity Writing
- Messy Confessions: Sheila Heti's How Should a Person Be?
- Erasures from the Territories Called Canada: Sharpening the Gaze at White Backgrounds
- caribou ghosts & untold stories
- Bobbi Lee, Indian Rebel
- Annharte
- Copyleft Poetics
- A ≠ A: The Potential for a Pataphysical Poetics in Dan Farrell's The Inkblot Record
- Everyday Practice Before and After Conceptual Writing
- Prose of the TransCanada
- 1988
- Anxious Influence: Reading John Cage Theoretically
- Epilogue
- On Amanda PL's Cancelled Exhibit
- A Line Can Be Drawn: An Interview
- After Matter
- Notes and Acknowledgements
- About the Authors
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781771123549
- 1771123540
- 9781771123532
- 1771123532
- OCLC:
- 1084501397
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