Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Notes on Contributors x
6. Introduction: Neo-Avant-Garde, Why Bother? 1
7. Part I: Concepts, Genres and Techniques
8. 1. Theodor Adorno, Peter Bürger and Oswald Wiener, or How to Apply Neo-Avant-Garde Theory to Neo-Avant-Garde Texts 33
9. 2. Despite Straight Lines: Josef Albers, Concrete Poetry and Temporal Relations 56
10. 3. Multi-faceted Images of Reality: Montage in Documentary Literature from the Long 1960s 73
11. 4. Foundists and Erasurists 89
12. 5. In Praise of Hybrid Purity: Nomadism and Pierre Joris 109
13. 6. Enigmatic and Revealing: Lucienne Stassaert’s Neo-Avant-Garde Short Story Collection Verhalen van de jonkvrouw met de spade (1964) 127
14. 7. Sound Poetry in France: A Neo-Avant-Garde? 143
15. 8. Surrealism Old and New in Three Generations of Prose Poets: The Case of the Low Countries 164
16. 9. Uneven Developments: Bande Dessinée, Rear-Guard and Neo-Avant-Gardes 180
17. 10. Differentiating the Return of the Real: Towards an Interdisciplinary Concept of the Neo-Avant-Garde 195
18. Part II: Movements and Authors
19. 11. ‘A riot is the language of the unheard’: Neo-Avant-Garde Poetic Uprisings in the Era of the Black Arts Movement 219
20. 12. The Neo-Avant-Garde in Latin America: The Case of Mario Bellatin 234
21. 13. Sycorax’ Revenge: Kamau Brathwaite and a Caribbean Version of the Neo-Avant-Garde 251
22. 14. ‘Belonging nowhere?’: Labelling British Experimental Women’s Fiction of the Long Sixties 264
23. 15. Constraint and Rule: Oulipo and the Neos 281
24. 16. A Third Term? Avant-Garde on the Fence in France Since the 1990s 294
25. 17. The Austrian Post-War Anomaly: Konrad Bayer’s Montage the head of vitus bering and the Category of the ‘New’ 314
26. 18. Surrealism in Post-War Vienna 330
27. 19. Images of the Real: Generic and Medial Hybridity in Peter Weiss’s The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman 350
28. 20. From Zero to Neo: Ivo Michiels, Book Alpha and the Neo-Avant-Garde 366
29. 21. Flemish Hybridity: The Magazine Labris (1962–73) and the Neo-Avant-Garde 381
30. Index 398