Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality and Experimental Writing

by Nathaniel Mackey

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052110999X
• ISBN13: 9780521109994
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"