Focus: Critical Lives– November / December 2014
nina2022-06-22T21:52:53+00:00To the degree that they compulsively return to the “strange loops” of inscription and transcription, authors' lives have been shaped and driven by their writing habit.
To the degree that they compulsively return to the “strange loops” of inscription and transcription, authors' lives have been shaped and driven by their writing habit.
In the context of a world where people of color make up from 70% to 83% of the global population, their representation in the genre of children's literature must change.
Efforts to expand literary canons have led to a renewed interest in experimentation and the interconnectivity fostered by economic globalization.
Postmodern writers celebrate fabulation and play, baroque excess, a metafictive self-consciousness, a darkly mordant wit, and an insistence that human reality is constructed.
The Sixties generation of writers gave us something simultaneously new and traditional, preserving and extending the anarchistic strain in what ABR founder Ron Sukenick called The Rival Tradition.
Machines with the ability to process natural language are taking on writing assignments that once would have been given to a human.
Letters, perhaps especially the letters of a celebrated author, promise to reveal the subjectivity of their writer in a way that no other form does.
If sex writing is a controversial issue, it is undoubtedly a different one for women writers than for men.
Creative criticism consciously critiques through narratives that provide sociohistorical context and analyze the political, economic, and social issues inherent in that time and place.
Even postmodernism's heyday was a glamorous afterlife, out of sync with itself and practiced as a form of subversive intertextuality. What then is post-postmodernism?
The desire to read and write, be it with charcoal or an iPhone, share in the same desire to understand and be understood, to communicate in and across time.
We are living through an era of zombie capitalism, and it is no accident that an apocalyptic necro-realism is the dominant mode of representation of our times.
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