Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement

Diasporic Avant-Gardes draws into dialogue twodiffering traditions ofpoetic practice: the diasporic and the avant-garde.  This interdisciplinary collectionexamines the unacknowledged affinities (and crucial differences) between avant-garde and diasporic formal strategies and social formations. The essays foreground the creation of experimental forms and investigate the specific contexts of cultural displacement andlanguage use that inform their poetics.