Avant Canada: Poets, Prophets, Revolutionaries (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781771123525)

Avant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and creative works on a representative array of avant-garde literary movements in Canada from the past fifty years. From the work of Leonard Cohen and bpNichol to that of Jordan Abel and Liz Howard, Avant Canada features twenty-eight of the best writers and critics in the field.

The book proposes four dominant modes of avant-garde production: "Concrete Poetics," which accentuates the visual and material aspects of language; "Language Writing," which challenges the interconnection between words and things; "Identity Writing," which interrogates the self and its sociopolitical position; and "Copyleft Poetics," which undermines our habitual assumptions about the ownership of expression. A fifth section commemorates the importance of the Centennial in the 1960s at a time when avant-garde cultures in Canada began to emerge.

Readers of this book will become familiar with some of the most challenging works of literature--and their creators--that this country has ever produced. From Concrete Poetry in the 1960s through to Indigenous Literature in the 2010s, Avant Canada offers the most sweeping study of the literary avant-garde in Canada to date.

Author: Gregory Betts
ISBN-10: 1771123524
ISBN-13: 9781771123525
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/19/2018
Pages: 350
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d