Nathaniel Mackey, Destination Out

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Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609387597
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis Nathaniel Mackey, Destination Out by : Jeanne Heuving

Download or read book Nathaniel Mackey, Destination Out written by Jeanne Heuving and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first book of essays devoted entirely to Nathaniel Mackey’s work, prominent critics respond to a major oeuvre that is at once affirmative and utopic, negational and dystopic. Drawing on multiple genealogies and traditions, primarily from African and African diaspora histories and cultures, Mackey’s work envisions cultural creation as cross-cultural, based in the damaging relationships of Africans brought against their will to the Americas and the resulting innovations of New World African literatures and music. This collection is organized through broad topics in order to provide entrances into his challenging work: myth, literature, and seriality; music, performance, and collaboration; syncretism, synopsis, and what-saying. It engages Mackey’s spiritual and esoteric disposition along with his attention to what Amiri Baraka called the “enraged sociologies” of Black music. In his manifesto “Destination Out,” Mackey describes his work as “wanting to bid all givens goodbye” and as “centrifugal.” It is also centripetal, manifesting a reflexive interiority that creates itself through recurring forms. Contributors: Maria Damon, Joseph Donahue, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Norman Finkelstein, Luke Harley, Paul Jaussen, Adalaide Morris, Fred Moten, Peter O’Leary, Anthony Reed

Collusions of Fact and Fiction

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Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609387783
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis Collusions of Fact and Fiction by : Ilka Saal

Download or read book Collusions of Fact and Fiction written by Ilka Saal and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictions of history and historiopoetic performances of the past -- Digging, rep & rev-ing, faking: Suzan-Lori Parks's historiopoetic praxis -- A sidelong glance at history: unreliable narration and the silhouette as blickmaschine in Kara Walker -- Stereotypes and theatricality: (Re)staging Black Venus -- Coda: wither historiopoiesis?

Freedom Time

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Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421415208
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Book Synopsis Freedom Time by : Anthony Reed

Download or read book Freedom Time written by Anthony Reed and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-12 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Freedom Time, Anthony Reed reclaims the power of black experimental poetry and prose by arguing that if literature fundamentally serves the human need for freedom in expression, then readers and critics must see it as something other than a reflection of the politics of social protest and identity formation. Prior to the successful campaigns against Jim Crow segregation in the U.S. and colonization in the Caribbean, literary politics seemed much more obviously interventionist. As more African Americans and Afro-Caribbean writers gained access to formal political power, more writing emerged whose political concerns went beyond improving racial representation, appealing for social recognition, raising consciousness, or commenting on the political disillusion and fragmentation of the post-segregation and post-colonial moments. Through formal innovation and abstraction, writers increasingly pushed the limits of representation and expression in order to extend the limits of thought and literary possibility. Reed offers a theoretical account of this new "black experimental writing," which is at once a literary historical development, and a concept with which to analyze the ways writing engages race and the possibilities of expression. One of his key interventions is arguing that form drives the politics literature, not vice-versa. Through extended analyses of works by N. H. Pritchard, NourbeSe Philip, Kamau Brathwaite, Claudia Rankine, Douglas Kearney, Harryette Mullen, Suzan-Lori Parks and Nathaniel Mackey, Freedom Time draws out the political implication of their innovative approaches to literary aesthetics"--

Discrepant Engagement

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521444538
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (445 download)

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Book Synopsis Discrepant Engagement by : Nathaniel Mackey

Download or read book Discrepant Engagement written by Nathaniel Mackey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-09-24 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discrepant Engagement addresses work by black writers from the United States and the Caribbean and the so-called Black Mountain poets.

Reverse Colonization

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Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609387848
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis Reverse Colonization by : David M. Higgins

Download or read book Reverse Colonization written by David M. Higgins and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reverse colonization narratives are stories like H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds (where technologically superior Martians invade and colonize England) that ask Western audiences to imagine what it's like to be the colonized rather than the colonizers. In this book, David M. Higgins argues that although some reverse colonization stories are thoughtful and provocative (because they ask us to think critically about what empire feels like from the receiving end), reverse colonization fantasy has also led to the prevalence of a very dangerous kind of science fictional thinking in our current political culture. Everyone, now (including anti-feminists, white supremacists, and far-right reactionaries) likes to imagine themselves as the Rebel Alliance fighting against the Empire (or Neo trying to escape the Matrix, or Katniss Everdeen waging war against the Capitol). Reverse colonization fantasy, in other words, has a dangerous tendency to enable white men (and other subjects of privilege) to appropriate a sense of victimhood for their own social and political advantage"--

Splay Anthem

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811216524
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis Splay Anthem by : Nathaniel Mackey

Download or read book Splay Anthem written by Nathaniel Mackey and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a stunning new collection of poems of transport and transcendence, African-American poet Nathaniel Mackey's "asthmatic song of aspiration" scuttles across cultures and histories--from America to Andalucía, from Ethiopia to Vienna--in a sexy, beautiful adaptive dance.

From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780811218443
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate written by Nathaniel Mackey and published by New Directions Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great American jazz novel of "such exquisite rhythmic lyricism" (Bookforum) by National Book Award Winner Nathaniel Mackey.

Blue Fasa

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811224465
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Blue Fasa written by Nathaniel Mackey and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stellar new collection of poems by “the Balanchine of the architecture dance” (The New York Times), and winner of the National Book Award in poetry. Nathaniel Mackey’s sixth collection of poems, Blue Fasa, continues what the New Yorker has described as the “mythological conception” and “descriptive daring” of his two intertwined serial poems—where, however, “no prior knowledge is required” for readers new to this poet’s visionary work. This collection takes its title from two related black musical traditions, a West African griot epic as told by the Fasa, a clan in ancient Ghana, and trumpeter Kenny Dorham’s hard bop classic “Blue Bossa,” influenced by the emergence of Brazilian bossa nova. In two sections Blue Fasa opens with the catch of the heart and the call of romance, as it follows a band of travelers, refugees from history, on their incessant migrations through time, place, and polity, toward renewal.

Paracritical Hinge

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Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609385837
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Paracritical Hinge written by Nathaniel Mackey and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paracritical Hinge is a collection of varied yet interrelated pieces highlighting Nathaniel Mackey’s multifaceted work as writer and critic. It embraces topics ranging from Walt Whitman’s interest in phrenology to the marginalization of African American experimental writing; from Kamau Brathwaite’s “calibanistic” language practices to Federico García Lorca’s flamenco aesthetic of duende and its continuing repercussions; from H. D.’s desert measure and coastal way of knowing to the altered spatial disposition of Miles Davis’s trumpet sound; from Robert Duncan’s serial poetics to diasporic syncretism; from the lyric poem’s present-day predicaments to gnosticism. Offering illuminating commentary on these and other artists including Amiri Baraka, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Wilson Harris, Jack Spicer, John Coltrane, Jay Wright, and Bob Kaufman, Paracritical Hinge also sheds light on Mackey’s own work as a poet, fiction writer, and editor.

Whatsaid Serif

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Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 : 9780872863415
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book Whatsaid Serif written by Nathaniel Mackey and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exquisite recipes that push the boundaries of vegan cuisine

Every Goodbye Ain't Gone

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Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817352791
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Book Synopsis Every Goodbye Ain't Gone by : Aldon Lynn Nielsen

Download or read book Every Goodbye Ain't Gone written by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2006-02-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcases brilliant and experimental work in African American poetry. Just prior to the Second World War, and even more explosively in the 1950s and 1960s, a far-reaching revolution in aesthetics and prosody by black poets ensued, some working independently and others in organized groups. Little of this new work was reflected in the anthologies and syllabi of college English courses of the period. Even during the 1970s, when African American literature began to receive substantial critical attention, the work of many experimental black poets continued to be neglected. Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone presents the groundbreaking work of many of these poets who carried on the innovative legacies of Melvin Tolson, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Robert Hayden. Whereas poetry by such key figures such as Amiri Baraka, Tolson, Jayne Cortez, Clarence Major, and June Jordan is represented, this anthology also elevates into view the work of less studied poets such as Russell Atkins, Jodi Braxton, David Henderson, Bob Kaufman, Stephen Jonas, and Elouise Loftin. Many of the poems collected in the volume are currently unavailable and some will appear in print here for the first time. Coeditors Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey provide a critical introduction that situates the poems historically and highlights the ways such poetry has been obscured from view by recent critical and academic practices. The result is a record of experimentation, instigation, and innovation that links contemporary African American poetry to its black modernist roots and extends the terms of modern poetics into the future.

Black and Blur

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822372223
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Book Synopsis Black and Blur by : Fred Moten

Download or read book Black and Blur written by Fred Moten and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."—Brent Hayes Edwards, author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination In Black and Blur—the first volume in his sublime and compelling trilogy consent not to be a single being—Fred Moten engages in a capacious consideration of the place and force of blackness in African diaspora arts, politics, and life. In these interrelated essays, Moten attends to entanglement, the blurring of borders, and other practices that trouble notions of self-determination and sovereignty within political and aesthetic realms. Black and Blur is marked by unlikely juxtapositions: Althusser informs analyses of rappers Pras and Ol' Dirty Bastard; Shakespeare encounters Stokely Carmichael; thinkers like Kant, Adorno, and José Esteban Muñoz and artists and musicians including Thornton Dial and Cecil Taylor play off each other. Moten holds that blackness encompasses a range of social, aesthetic, and theoretical insurgencies that respond to a shared modernity founded upon the sociological catastrophe of the transatlantic slave trade and settler colonialism. In so doing, he unsettles normative ways of reading, hearing, and seeing, thereby reordering the senses to create new means of knowing.

Reading the Difficulties

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Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817357521
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Book Synopsis Reading the Difficulties by : Thomas Fink

Download or read book Reading the Difficulties written by Thomas Fink and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bold essays that make up Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry. Definitions of what constitutes innovative poetry are innumerable and are offered from every quarter. Some critics and poets argue that innovative poetry concerns free association (John Ashbery), others that experimental poetry is a “re-staging” of language (Bruce Andrews) or a syntactic and cognitive break with the past (Ron Silliman and Lyn Hejinian). The tenets of new poetry abound. But what of the new reading that such poetry demands? Essays in Reading the Difficulties ask what kinds of stances allow readers to interact with verse that deliberately removes many of the comfortable cues to comprehension—poetry that is frequently nonnarrative, nonrepresentational, and indeterminate in subject, theme, or message. Some essays in Thomas Fink and Judith Halden-Sullivan’s collection address issues of reader reception and the way specific stances toward reading support or complement the aesthetic of each poet. Others suggest how we can be open readers, how innovative poetic texts change the very nature of reader and reading, and how critical language can capture this metamorphosis. Some contributors consider how the reader changes innovative poetry, what language reveals about this interaction, which new reading strategies unfold for the audiences of innovative verse, and what questions readers should ask of innovative verse and of events and experiences that we might bring to reading it. CONTRIBUTORS Charles Bernstein / Carrie Conners / Thomas Fink / Kristen Gallagher / Judith Halden-Sullivan / Paolo Javier / Burt Kimmelman / Hank Lazer / Jessica Lewis Luck / Stephen Paul Miller / Sheila E. Murphy / Elizabeth Robinson / Christopher Schmidt / Eileen R. Tabios

X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought

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Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823254089
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought written by Nahum Dimitri Chandler and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed scholar and author of Beyond This Narrow Now presents a provocative new reading of W.E.B. Du Bois with far-reaching implications. X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought offers an original account of matters African American, and by implication the African diaspora in general, as an object of discourse and knowledge. It likewise challenges the conception of analogous objects of study across dominant ethnological disciplines (e.g., anthropology, history, and sociology) and the various forms of cultural, ethnic, and postcolonial studies. With special reference to the work of W.E.B. Du Bois, Chandler shows how a concern with the Negro is central to the social and historical problematization that underwrote twentieth-century explorations of what it means to exist as an historical entity—referring to their antecedents in eighteenth-century thought and forward into their ongoing itinerary in the twenty-first century. “Nahum Chandler is one of the very few truly indispensable thinkers at work in the study of the African diaspora, which is, as he so brilliantly shows, the study of the modern world.” —Fred Moten, Duke University

Nod House

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Publisher : New Directions Paperbook
ISBN 13 : 9780811219464
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Nod House written by Nathaniel Mackey and published by New Directions Paperbook. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents poetry by Nathaniel Mackey.

Lyric Powers

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226865029
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Book Synopsis Lyric Powers by : Robert von Hallberg

Download or read book Lyric Powers written by Robert von Hallberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authority of poetry varies from one period to another, from one culture to another. For Robert von Hallberg, the authority of lyric poetry has three sources: religious affirmation, the social institutions of those who speak the idioms from which particular poems are made, and the extraordinary cognition generated by the formal and musical resources of poems. Lyric Powers helps students, poets, and general readers to recognize the pleasures and understand the ambitions of lyric poetry. To explain why a reader might prefer one kind of poem to another, von Hallberg analyzes—beyond the political and intellectual significance of poems—the musicality of both lyric poetry and popular song, including that of Tin Pan Alley and doo-wop. He shows that poets have distinctive intellectual resources—not just rhetorical resources—for examining their subjects, and that the power of poetic language to generalize, not particularize, is what justly deserves a critic’s attention. The first book in more than a decade from this respected critic, Lyric Powers will be celebrated as a genuine event by readers of poetry and literary criticism.

Stubborn Poetries

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Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817357483
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Stubborn Poetries written by Peter Quartermain and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stubborn Poetries is a study of poets whose work, because of its difficulty or simple resistance to conventional explication, remains more or less firmly outside the canon. Book jacket.