Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 18:54:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Spoon Collective <spoons-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU>
Subject: Query: Literary Manifestos (fwd)




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Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 18:29:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Paul Brophy <pbrophy-AT-epas.utoronto.ca>
To: postcolonial-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Subject: Query: Literary Manifestos

I would be most grateful for any hlp on the following search...

     For a project on postcolonial literary manifestos, I am looking for 
texts that fall into one or more of the following categories:
          -bibliography,
          -primary text,
          -commentary, and
          -theoretical discussion.
To begin with, I am casting my net widely by defining "manifesto" to 
include self-identified manifestos as well as editorials, essays, poems, 
speeches, printed ephemera and so on that function for some community of 
readers as a manifesto.

Focus
     I am interested primarily in manifestos from non-settler 
postcolonial nations and first nations that exhibit a mixture of the 
concerns that have been identified with modernism, postcolonialism and 
nationalism.  My concern is with politically charged aesthetic theories 
and with the relationship of manifestos that articulate them to the 
literatures and criticism that followed.  Texts that address issues of 
gender and sexuality are particularly welcome.

Example
  As an example, CLR James's lecture/pamphlet, entitled "The Artist in 
the Caribbean" (1959), concludes:
          Let us create the conditions under which the artist can flourish.
          But to do that, we must have the consciousness that the nation
          which we are hoping to build, as much as it needs the pooling
          of resources and industrialization and a higher productivity of
          labour, needs also the supreme artist.

Contact
     If you wish to contact me directly, please use the following:

          E-mail:  pbrophy-AT-epas.utoronto.ca

          Mail:     Paul Brophy
                    Postdoctoral Fellow
                    Department of English
                    University of Toronto
                    7 King's College Circle
                    Toronto, Ontario
                    Canada  M5S 1A1

Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to give!

--Paul





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