Literary History and Avant-Garde Poetics in the Antipodes
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- ISBN 9781399526821
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2024
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Avant-garde poetry in the Antipodes causes all sorts of trouble for literary history. It is an avant-garde that seems to arrive too late and yet right on time. In 1897, Christopher Brennan made his own version of Un Coup de Des, the same year Mallarme published it in Cosmopolis. In the 1940s, the same period avant-gardism was declared dead or fatally injured due to the Ern Malley affair, Harry Hooton began writing a significant body of experimental poetry. From the 1950s to the 1970s, Australian Dada emerged 'belatedly' through figures like Jas H. Duke (Tristan Tzara had previously sung Aboriginal songs at the Cabaret Voltaire in 1916). First Nations and Migrant poets then began reinventing avant-garde poetry in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book maintains that such a confounding literary history poses a distinct challenge to the theories of the avant-gardes we have become accustomed to and changes our perspective of avant-garde time.
A. J. Carruthers is a poet, critic, author of Stave Sightings: Notational Experiments in North American Long Poems (2017), and three volumes of the long poem AXIS: AXIS Book 1 (2014), AXIS Book 2 (2019) and AXIS Z Book 3 (2023). Carruthers has worked in China, as Associate Professor in the English Department, Nanjing University, and is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University.
