CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ILLUSTRATIONS xi
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii
5. INTRODUCTION. Manifestos–Poetry of the Revolution 1
6. PART ONE. Marx and the Manifesto
7. 1. The Formation of a Genre 11
8. 2. Marxian Speech Acts 23
9. 3. The History of the Communist Manifesto 33
10. 4. The Geography of the Communist Manifesto 47
11. PART TWO. The Futurism Effect
12. 5. Marinetti and the Avant-Garde Manifesto 69
13. 6. Russian Futurism and the Soviet State 94
14. 7. The Rear Guard of British Modernism 107
15. PART THREE. The Avant-Garde at Large
16. 8. Dada and the Internationalism of the Avant-Garde 135
17. 9. Huidobro’s Creation of a Latin American Vanguard 166
18. PART FOUR. Manifestos as Means and End
19. 10. Surrealism, Latent and Manifest 179
20. 11. Artaud’s Manifesto Theater 196
21. PART FIVE. A New Poetry for a New Revolution
22. 12. The Manifesto in the Sixties 211
23. 13. Debord’s Society of the Counterspectacle 220
24. 14. The Avant-Garde Is Dead: Long Live the Avant-Garde! 241
25. EPILOGUE. Poetry for the Future 259
26. NOTES 263
27. BIBLIOGRAPHY 295
28. INDEX 309