Avant Canada
Subtitle: Poets, Prophets, Revolutionaries
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781771123525
Subjects: Literature, experimental, history and criticism
Description: "It's a collection of original essays and supporting creative works on an array of Canadian literary avant-garde movements from the past 50 years. Featuring 28 writers and critics in the field, it offers an overview of the past, present, and future of Canadian avant-garde writing. It's complete survey of contemporary avant-garde activity in Canada. It explores the intersection of Canadian avant-gardisms and Indigenous decolonization. Finally, it discusses controversial topics such as the relationship between Canadian and Indigenous literature, cultural appropriation, gender, and the Conceptual Writing movement."--