Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality and Experimental Writing (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 71)

Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality and Experimental Writing (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 71)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 norms

But Siku soon discovers that her father has been shielding a terrible secret: Siku is actually the daughter of the Great River Spirit

but I wish we had a dozen Titos in Germany

textile design

Yusuf Bey built a cult through a business called Your Black Muslim Bakery

Or will she make the punishment fit the betrayal

Rumer begins to feel isolated and alone until she finds an unlikely ally in Dante's almost ex-girlfriend

and promote settler nationalism

African Maroons in Sixteenth-Century Panama

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When he finally reaches Morocco

torn among their loyalties to each other

Gibson's memoir is also an engaging recollection of encounters with the likes of Thurgood Marshall