Neo-Avant-Gardes: Post-War Literary Experiments Across Borders
Bart Vervaeck
Abstract
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 Be ... More
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.
As a result, the book not only specifies the frame of the neo-avant-garde, but also shows its pertinence and its relation to the historical avant-garde, modernism, and postmodernism.
Keywords:
neo-avant-garde,
historical avant-garde,
modernism,
postmodernism,
experimental literature
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2021 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781474486095 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: May 2022 |
DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474486095.001.0001 |
