Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Literary Terrorism of Harold Jaffe: Journal of Experimental Fiction 29

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Harold Jaffe's acts of literary terrorism work to wrestle control of the future of literature away from the dominant culture. This book celebrates that effort. Jaffe is an acute observer of the painful conditions under which we are forced to live on a daily basis. And like any harbinger of ill, he is sometimes mistaken for its creator. But he is not. He is clearing out space that has been polluted for too long. His acts of literary terrorism are acts that reclaim literature and art fiction from its cooption by fast-food-wielding advocates of disposability: what has been disposed by the dominant political culture has too often been literary artists. Those who have benefited have seldom been literary artists. Jaffe has worked brilliantly to save literature from its unwitting complicity in the elimination of readers who dare question authority. The writing in this volume, whether by Jaffe, his former students and colleagues, or works inspired by his lead, helps blast us out of our complacency and reclaim space we should never have relinquished. Innovation and renovation are inextricably linked.

Language: English

Pages: 172

Format: Paperback

Publisher: iUniverse

Release: July 21, 2004

ISBN: 0595324681

ISBN 13: 9780595324682

The Literary Terrorism of Harold Jaffe: Journal of Experimental Fiction 29

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Harold Jaffe's acts of literary terrorism work to wrestle control of the future of literature away from the dominant culture. This book celebrates that effort. Jaffe is an acute observer of the painful conditions under which we are forced to live on a daily basis. And like any harbinger of ill, he is sometimes mistaken for its creator. But he is not. He is clearing out space that has been polluted for too long. His acts of literary terrorism are acts that reclaim literature and art fiction from its cooption by fast-food-wielding advocates of disposability: what has been disposed by the dominant political culture has too often been literary artists. Those who have benefited have seldom been literary artists. Jaffe has worked brilliantly to save literature from its unwitting complicity in the elimination of readers who dare question authority. The writing in this volume, whether by Jaffe, his former students and colleagues, or works inspired by his lead, helps blast us out of our complacency and reclaim space we should never have relinquished. Innovation and renovation are inextricably linked.

Language: English

Pages: 172

Format: Paperback

Publisher: iUniverse

Release: July 21, 2004

ISBN: 0595324681

ISBN 13: 9780595324682

More books from Eckhard Gerdes

The Bizarro Starter Kit (blue)

3.9/5 ( ratings)

My Landlady the Lobotomist

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Death to the Brothers Grimm

3.7/5 ( ratings)

How to Read

4.6/5 ( ratings)

The Million-Year Centipede

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Unwelcome Guest Plus Nin And Nan

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Cistern Tawdry

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Journal of Experimental Fiction 39

Hugh Moore

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Offbeat/Quirky (Journal of Experimental Fiction Volume 73)

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Przewalski's Horse

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Journal of Experimental Fiction 35

4.8/5 ( ratings)

Recto & Verso: A Work of Asemism and Pareidolia

Ambiguity

A-Way with it!: Contemporary Innovative Fiction

Projections

Blues for Youse

Fiction International 39: Abject/Outcast

Belighted Fiction: Journal of Experimental Fiction 4

Bizarro Fiction! Journal of Experimental Fiction 37

Rate this book!

Write a review?