Neo-Avant-Gardes: Post-War Literary Experiments Across Borders

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2021

Neo-Avant-Gardes

Post-War Literary Experiments Across Borders

Edited by: Bart Vervaeck

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474486118

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A systematic transnational investigation of post-war literary experiments in Europe and the Americas

Clarifies concepts, provides a well-defined methodology and presents a wide array of international case studies
Introduces the reader to major experimental authors and avant-garde traditions (that are often under-discussed) highlighting the transnational and interartistic context out of which they emerged
Puts new figures on the map while repositioning more established writers. In doing so, it points the way to further investigations, whose methodological foundations this book purports to establish
What are the forms in which the avant-garde returns after the Second World War? How does the literary avant-garde re-invent itself without losing its affinity with historical avant-garde currents such as surrealism and futurism?

This book explores the international relevance of the concept of neo-avant-garde for the study of post-war literary innovations covering North American, Latin American, Caribbean, Austrian, French, British, Belgian, Dutch and German cases. Each of the twenty-one newly commissioned chapters combines theoretical reflection with practical analysis. Together, they provide a multi-faceted account of diverse group and trends, such as the New Realists, Black Arts Movement, Labris and the Vienna Group. They also focus on a wide range of authors, like Pierre Alferi, Amiri Baraka, Konrad Bayer, Mario Bellatín, Kamau Brathwaite, and Anna Kavan. In addition, they pay attention to specific techniques, including erasure, lyricisation, and montage, and to specific genres such as comic books, experimental fiction, and visual poetry.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction: Neo-Avant-Garde, Why Bother? ENAG – European Neo-Avant-Garde Collective Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Concepts, Genres and Techniques
1. Theodor Adorno, Peter Bürger and Oswald Wiener, or How to Apply Neo-Avant-Garde Theory to Neo-Avant-Garde Texts Thomas Eder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
2. Despite Straight Lines: Josef Albers, Concrete Poetry and Temporal Relations Vincent Broqua Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
3. Multi-faceted Images of Reality: Montage in Documentary Literature from the Long 1960s Lieselot De Taeye Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
4. Foundists and Erasurists Michel Delville Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
5. In Praise of Hybrid Purity: Nomadism and Pierre Joris Jan Baetens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
6. Enigmatic and Revealing: Lucienne Stassaert’s Neo-Avant-Garde Short Story Collection Verhalen van de jonkvrouw met de spade (1964) Nele Janssens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
7. Sound Poetry in France: A Neo-Avant-Garde? Gaëlle Théval Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
8. Surrealism Old and New in Three Generations of Prose Poets: The Case of the Low Countries Hans Vandevoorde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
9. Uneven Developments: Bande Dessinée, Rear-Guard and Neo-Avant-Gardes Benoît Crucifix Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
10. Differentiating the Return of the Real: Towards an Interdisciplinary Concept of the Neo-Avant-Garde Sabine Müller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Part II: Movements and Authors
11. ‘A riot is the language of the unheard’: Neo-Avant-Garde Poetic Uprisings in the Era of the Black Arts Movement Antonia Rigaud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
12. The Neo-Avant-Garde in Latin America: The Case of Mario Bellatin Ilse Logie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
13. Sycorax’ Revenge: Kamau Brathwaite and a Caribbean Version of the Neo-Avant-Garde Christine Pagnoulle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
14. ‘Belonging nowhere?’: Labelling British Experimental Women’s Fiction of the Long Sixties Hannah Van Hove Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	264
15. Constraint and Rule: Oulipo and the Neos Jean-François Puff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
16. A Third Term? Avant-Garde on the Fence in France Since the 1990s Jeff Barda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	294
17. The Austrian Post-War Anomaly: Konrad Bayer’s Montage the head of vitus bering and the Category of the ‘New’ Roland Innerhofer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	314
18. Surrealism in Post-War Vienna Laura Tezarek and Christian Zolles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	330
19. Images of the Real: Generic and Medial Hybridity in Peter Weiss’s The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman Inge Arteel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	350
20. From Zero to Neo: Ivo Michiels, Book Alpha and the Neo-Avant-Garde Lars Bernaerts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	366
21. Flemish Hybridity: The Magazine Labris (1962–73) and the Neo-Avant-Garde Dirk De Geest and Bart Vervaeck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	381
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	398

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 424
Keywords: Literary Studies

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Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474486118