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Title Listening up, writing down, and looking beyond : interfaces of the oral, written, and visual / Susan Gingell and Wendy Roy, editors
Published Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2012]
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Description 1 online resource (389 pages)
Contents Introduction -- Opening the Door to Transdisciplinary, Multimodal Communication / Wendy Roy -- Listening Up: Performance Poetics. Bring Da Noise: The Poetics of Performance, chez d'bi young and Oni Joseph / George Elliott Clarke -- storyteller's integrity / d'bi.young.anitafrika -- Poetry Performances on the Page and Stage: Insights from Slam / Helen Gregory -- Poetry and Overturned Cars: Why Performance Poetry Can't Be Studied (and Why We Should Study It Anyway) / Hugh Hodges -- Echohomonymy: A Poetics of Ethos, Eros, and Erasure / Adeena Karasick -- Dialect Poetry and the Need for Performance: The Case of William Barnes / T.L. Burton -- Speech-Music Continuum / Paul Dutton -- Writing Down: Textualized Orature and Orality. Writing and Rapping for a New South Africa: The Poetry of Lesego Rampolokeng / Gugu Hlongwane -- Ballad as Site of Rebellion: Orality, Gender, and the Granuaile Aislingi / Naomi Foyle -- "pleasure for our sense, health for our hearts": Inferring Pronuntiatio and Actio from the Text of John Donne's Second Prebend Sermon / Brent Nelson -- "The Power and the Paradox" of the Spoken Story: Challenges to the Tyranny of the Written in Contemporary Canadian Fiction / Wendy Roy -- What's in a Frame? The Significance of Relational Word Bundles in Louise Bernice Halfe's Blue Marrow / Mareike Neuhaus -- Toward an "Open Field": The Ethics of the Encounter in Life Lived Like a Story / Emily Blacker -- Looking Beyond: Reintegrating the Visual. Becoming the Storyteller: Meaning Making in Our Age of Resistance / Waziyatawin -- Re-Si(gh)ting the Storyteller in Textualized Orature: Photographs in The Days of Augusta / Cara DeHaan -- Traditionalizing Modernity and Sound Identity in Neal McLeod's Writings of the Oral[/ Susan Gingell -- Nexus of Connections: Acts of Recovery, Acts of Resistance in Native Palimpsest / Kimberly M. Blaeser
Summary An interdisciplinary collection that gathers the work of scholars and performance practitioners who together explore questions about the oral, written, and visual. It addresses the politics and ethics of the utterance and text: textualising orature and orality, simulations of the oral, the poetics of performance, and reconstructions of the oral
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Performance art -- History and criticism
Performance art -- Social aspects
Oral tradition.
Indigenous peoples in literature.
ART -- Performance.
ART -- Reference.
Indigenous peoples in literature
Oral tradition
Performance art
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Gingell, Susan, 1951- editor.
Roy, Wendy, 1957- editor.
ISBN 9781554583928
1554583926