Literature's Elsewheres - On the Necessity of Radical Literary Practices (Gilbert Annette)(Paperback / softback)

An examination of a series of diverse, radical, and experimental international works from the 1950s to the present. What is a literary work? In Literature's Elsewheres, Annette Gilbert tackles this question by deploying an extended concept of literature, examining a series of diverse, radical, experimental works from the 1950s to the present that occupy the liminal zone between art and literature. These works--by American Artist, Allison Parrish, Natalie Czech, Stephanie Syjuco, Fiona Banner, Elfriede Jelinek, Dan Graham, Robert Barry, George Brecht, and others--represent a pluralized literary practice that imagines a different literature emerging from its elsewheres. Investigating a work's coming into being--its transition from "text" to "work" as a social object and pragmatic category of literary communication--Gilbert probes the assumptions and foundations that
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