Contested Records by Michael Leong All Books sku-490574656

In the paperback Contested Records, Michael Leong examines how contemporary North American poets use source material, including newspapers, government records and testimony. One document details the murder of 132 African captives; others record the last words of death row inmates or accounts of a fatal mine disaster from miners and rescue workers. Leong discusses work by Kenneth Goldsmith, Vanessa Place, Amiri Baraka, Claudia Rankine, M. NourbeSe Philip and others. He considers collage, plagiarism, re-reporting and textual outsourcing, as well as the emotions official records can evoke. The book argues that document-based poetry can counter the ways state bureaucracy polices and traumatizes people by giving marginalized experiences a place in cultural memory. Listed under All Books as sku-490574656.You may also like Frank Baumann TQM im Handel All Books sku-427277286.