Dada As Text, Thought and Theory
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781907975837
Subjects: Dadaism; Literature, experimental; French literature, history and criticism
Description: The Dada movement, revered as perhaps the purest form of cultural subversion and provocation in 20th-century Europe, has been a victim of the readiness with which cultural historians have swallowed its own propaganda. Based on extensive close analysis of French-language Dada work in its original form, and offering English translations throughout, this major reappraisal looks at a broad range of media and topics {u2013} including poetry, film, philosophy, and quantum physics {u2013} in order to get beyond Dada{u2019}s typecasting as avant-garde anti-hero. Work by women writers and other marginalized figures combines with that of canonical Dadaists to present Dada in a radically new set of guises: poetic and textually subtle; intellectually and philosophically meaningful; peaceable and quasi-Buddhist; and, perhaps most uncomfortably of all, conformist and reactionary. --