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Winslow, Aaron W.

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The Labor of the Avant-Garde: Experimental Form and the Politics of Work in Post-War American Poetry and Fiction.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Labor of the Avant-Garde: Experimental Form and the Politics of Work in Post-War American Poetry and Fiction./
Author:	Winslow, Aaron W.
Description:	272 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-06(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-06A(E).
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3682329
ISBN:	9781321556391

The Labor of the Avant-Garde: Experimental Form and the Politics of Work in Post-War American Poetry and Fiction.
Winslow, Aaron W.

The Labor of the Avant-Garde: Experimental Form and the Politics of Work in Post-War American Poetry and Fiction. - 272 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-06(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2015.

While literary critics have explored the politics of labor in pre-war modernist literature, the post-45 avant-garde has continued to be framed as a depoliticized repetition of previous avant-garde styles. Examining American avant-garde literature in its relation to the political and economic shifts from the 1960s through the late 1980s, my dissertation corrects this narrative to show that labor and labor politics were central categories in post-war experimental poetry and fiction. I argue that writers as disparate as Charles Olson, William S. Burroughs, Samuel R. Delany, and Susan Howe reworked disjunctive modernist forms to cognitively map emergent economic tendencies in the US. Parataxis, collage, surrealist imagery, aleatory compositional methods, non-linear plotting, and metafictional narrative conceits all constitute the stylistic techniques of an avant-garde engaged in an extended dialogue about work and the politics of work. The canon of experimental literature functioned as a counter-discourse that contested and reshaped discourses of labor by considering it alongside categories of race, gender, and sexuality.

ISBN: 9781321556391Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.

The Labor of the Avant-Garde: Experimental Form and the Politics of Work in Post-War American Poetry and Fiction.
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