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In the 20th century, the universalist paradigm was put in crisis by thinkers of the black
radical tradition such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon, then by African-American feminists who were marginalized both from the women’s movement because of their skin color, and from the civil rights movement because of their gender. The epistemological crisis wrought by postcolonial studies beginning in the 1970s, and currently by decolonial studies, testifies to a deep disenchantment with the category of universality, sometimes understood as an unkept promise of equality that is actually quick to break into violence.
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Argument
After Stéphane Mallarmé transformed the page into “a poetic category” and made the poem itself into a “specific organization of silence” (Dessons 2001), Guillaume Apollinaire dreamed in L’Esprit nouveau et les poètes (1917) of a “synthesis of the arts, of music, painting and literature” (quoted in Bertrand 2002), of an ideal renewal of language incarnated in part in the lyrical ideogram. Does not visual poetry, which we can define as “poetry meant to be seen” (Bohn 1986, 2), respond to this invitation?
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We share the CFP for the 18th International Conference on Contemporary Narratives in English: “Recent Approaches to the Posthuman: Cultural Reflections on the (Post-)Human Condition,” to be held onsite at the University of Zaragoza on May 15-17, 2023.
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Call For Papers (Issue 7 Dec. 2023)
Ex-Centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media (Issue 7, Dec. 2023)
Special Issue Title: Trajectories from the Past: Modernist Futures and the Future of Modernism
Special Issue Guest Editors (Part I): Dr. Sara Dunton (sara.dunton@unb.ca) and Dr. Anna Fyta (annafyta@gmail.com)
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