Discrepant engagement
Subtitle: dissonance, cross-culturality, and experimental writing
By: Nathaniel Mackey
Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture -- 71; Cambridge studies in American literature and culture -- 71.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780521109994
Subjects: African Americans in literature; West Indian literature (English); Literature and society; Intellectual life; History and criticism; American literature; Blacks in literature; Experimental Literature; Caribbean literature (English); African American authors; Black authors; African Americans
Notes: Originally published in 1993.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-304) and index.

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Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction : and all the birds sing bass; title: 2. The changing same : Black music in the poetry of Amiri Baraka; title: 3. To define an ulitimate dimness : the poetry of Clarence Major; title: 4. The world-poem in microcosm : Robert Duncan's "The continent"; title: 5. Uroboros : Robert Duncan's Dante and A seventeenth century suite; title: 6. Robert Creeley's The gold diggers : projective prose; title: 7. The words can be on the page : the graphic aspect of Charles Olson's poetics; title: 8. New series I (folk series) : Edward Kamau Brathwaite's New world trilogy; title: 9. Limbo, dislocation, phantom limb : Wilson Harris and the Caribbean occasion; title: 10. Poseidon (dub version); title: 11. The unruly pivot : Wilson Harris's The eye of the scarecrow; title: 12. The imagination of justice : Wilson Harris's Ascent to Omai; title: 13. Sound and sentiment, sound and symbol; title: 14. On edge; title: 15. Other : from noun to verb.