Postliterary America
Subtitle: from bagel shop jazz to micropoetries
By: Maria Damon
Series: Contemporary North American poetry series
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781587299575
Subjects: Identity (Psychology) in literature; Minority authors; American poetry; History and criticism; Poetry; American Experimental poetry
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Jewish entertainer as cultural lightning rod: the case of Lenny Bruce; title: Jazz-Jews, jive, and gender: the ethnic politics of jazz argot; title: Triangulated desire and tactical silences in the Beat hipscape: Bob Kaufman and others; title: Displaysias: writing social science and ethnicity in Gertrude Stein and certain others; title: Imp/penetrable archive: Adeena Karasick's Wall of Sound; title: Kinetic exultations: postliterary poetry, counterperformance, and micropoetries; title: When the NuyoRicans came to town: (ex)changing poetics; title: Avant-garde or border guard: (Latino) identity in poetry; title: Loneliness, lyric, ethnography: some discourses on/of the divided self; title: Poetries, micropoetries, micropoetics: elegy on the outskirts; title: Electronic poetics assay: diaspora, silliness and-'gender'.