Powers of Possibility: Experimental American Writing since the 1960s by Alex Hou

by Alex Hou

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Powers of Possibility by Alex Houen Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description By outlining a novel concept of literary practice, potentialism , this book shows how opening up literary possibilities enabled writers such as Allen Ginsberg, LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, William S. Burroughs, Kathy Acker, and Lyn Hejinian to tackle matters of power and politics. Publisher Description In The Meaning of Contemporary Realism (1957) Georg Luk cs discussed how the power struggle of the Cold War made it all the more pressing for literary writers to present concrete potentialities of individual character in novel ways. Powers of Possibility explores how American experimental writers since the 1960s have set about presenting exactly that while engaging with specific issues of social power. The book s fivechapters cover a range of writers, literary genres, and political issues, including: Allen Ginsberg s anti-Vietnam War poems; LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka and Black Power theatre; William S. Burroughs s novels and the SpaceProgrammes; Kathy Acker s fiction and Biopolitics; and Lyn Hejinian, Language poetry, and the Cold War. Each chapter examines how relations of character and social power were widely discussed in terms of potentiality: Black Power groups, for example, debated the revolutionary potential of African Americans, while advances in the space programmes led to speculation about the evolution of human potential in space colonies. In consider

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2012
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780199609291
• Condition: Fine

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