Freedom Time : The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Visions of a Liberated Future -- PART 1: WORLD ENOUGH FOR A FIGURE -- 1 Broken Witness: Concrete Poetry and a Poetics of Unsaying -- 2 Establishing Synchronisms: Sycorax Video Style and the Plural Instant -- 3 Between Now and Yet: Postlyric Poetry and the Moment of Expression -- PART 2: ABOVE WHERE SOUND LEAVES OFF -- 4 Sing It in My Voice: Blues, Irony, and a Politics of Affirmative Difference -- 5 Exploding Dimensions of Song: The Utopian Poetics of the Cut -- Postscript: Destination . . . Out! Experimentation, Aesthetics, and Racial Time -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

With an approach informed by literary, cultural, African American, and feminist studies, Reed shows how reworking literary materials and conventions liberates writers to push the limits of representation and expression.

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