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Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality and Experimental Writing
by Nathaniel Mackey

    Publication Date: Sep 24, 1993
    List Price: $118.00
    Format: Hardcover, 326 pages
    Classification: Poetry
    ISBN13: 9780521444538
    Imprint: Cambridge University Press
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press
    Parent Company: Cambridge University

    Description of Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality and Experimental Writing by Nathaniel Mackey


    Discrepant Engagement addresses work by a number of authors not normally grouped under a common rubric—black writers from the United States and the Caribbean and the so-called Black Mountain poets. Nathaniel Mackey examines the ways in which the experimental aspects of their work advance a critique of the assumptions underlying conventional perceptions and practice. Arguing that the work of these writers engages the discrepancy between presumed norms and qualities of experience such norms fail to accommodate, Mackey highlights their valorization of dissonance, divergence and formal disruption. He advances a cross-cultural mix that is uncommon in studies of experimental writing, frequently bringing the works and ideas of the authors it addresses into dialogue and juxtaposition with one another, insisting that parallels, counterpoint and relevance to one another exist among writers otherwise separated by ethnic and regional boundaries.



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