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Diasporic Avant-Gardes: experimental poetics and cultural displacement

Diasporic Avant-Gardes: experimental poetics and cultural displacement

Publié le par Julien Desrochers (Source : Franco-monde)

Diasporic Avant-Gardes experimental poetics and cultural displacement
University of California, Irvine
November 19-20, 2004

Call for Papers

We are soliciting papers that explore the connection between avant-garde
practices developed in European centers and those emerging in
postcolonial peripheries. Submitted papers should contribute toward
strengthening the already established but under-theorized interface
between race and ethnicity studies and work in poetry and poetics.
Conference sessions will center on the crucial alliances that have been
forged among African-American poets, Language poets, and French
post-Objectivist poets; Caribbean poets, French surrealists, and visual
poets; and, finally, minority performance poets and French sound poets
working within the tradition of Futurist and Dadaist experiment.
The conference will highlight the work of a range of poet/performers
such as: Bruce Andrews, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Christian Bök, Kamau
Brathwaite, Olivier Cadiot, Michael Davidson, Dominique Fourcade,
Edouard Glissant, Linton Kwese Johnson, Bernard Heidsieck, Lyn Hejinian,
Tan Lin, Nathaniel Mackey, Mark McMorris, Steve McCaffery, Michèle
Métail, Tracie Morris, Fred Moten, Harryette Mullen, Marlene NourbeSe
Philip, Ed Roberson, Jerome Rothenberg, Jacques Roubaud, Claude
Royet-Journoud, MC Solaar, and Edwin Torres. Each of these
poet/performers extends the aesthetic practices of the historical
avant-garde for the purpose of exposing and undermining a
colonizing politics of representation. Conference papers should
demonstrate how poets such as these draw from and add to the evolving
history of socially engaged, formally innovative poetry.

Featured Guests:
Bruce Andrews
Jean-Pierre Bobillot
Christian Bök
Kamau Brathwaite
Michael Davidson
Brent Edwards
Bernard Heidsieck
Lyn Hejinian
Nathaniel Mackey
Tracie Morris
Fred Moten
Aldon Nielson

Send one-page proposal by April 20, 2004 to conference organizers:

Carrie Noland
Department of French and Italian
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-9295
cjnoland@uci.edu

Barrett Watten
Department of English
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202
b.watten@wayne.edu

For further conference information, visit our website:
http://www.hri.uci.edu/Diasporic_Avant-Gardes/