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1. Looking Back while Moving Forward: The Case of Concrete Poetry and Sankofa

   This article considers the intersection between African oral tradition and electronic literature by exploring the potential of Sankofa to interact with concrete poetry in an electronic space. Sankofa is an example of the Adinkra, a set of symbols that were originally created and used by the Akan in West Africa. These symbols have literary value which this article looks at in ways similar to concrete poetry; examining Sankofa as concrete poetry in an electronic context enables a simultaneous dovetailing with as well as convergence from oral and print based modes of engaging with the text: aspects of oral tradition influence this exploration.

   Elias Adanu - 07.06.2017 - 20:12

2. The Freedom Adventure of Portuguese Experimentalism and Kinetic Poetry

   The Freedom Adventure of Portuguese Experimentalism and Kinetic Poetry

   Ana Castello - 27.04.2018 - 14:25

3. Urs Schreibers "Das Epos der Maschine": Wenn konkrete Poesie digital wird

   Urs Schreibers "Das Epos der Maschine": Wenn konkrete Poesie digital wird

   Patricia Tomaszek - 23.07.2018 - 16:30

4. From Dada to Digital: Experimental Poetry in the Media Age

   At least since Mallarme, if not before, poets in the Western tradition have responded to changes in media technologies by reflecting on their own relationship to language, and by reassessing the limits and possibilities of poetry. In the German- speaking world, this tendency has been pronounced in a number of experimental movements: Dada, particularly in Zurich and Berlin between 1916 and 1921; Concrete poetry, especially its Swiss and German variants in the 1950s and '60s; and finally, digital or electronic poetry, a genre that is still developing all around the world, but has roots in Germany dating back to the late 1950s. For each of these movements, the increasing dominance of new media technologies contributes to an understanding of language as something material, quantifiable, and external to its human users, and casts doubt on the function of language as a means of subjective expression, particularly in the context of poetry.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 07.08.2018 - 14:27

5. Introduction - Concrete Poetry: A World View

   Introduction - Concrete Poetry: A World View

   Ana Castello - 09.10.2018 - 15:17

6. Ian Hamilton Finlay: the concrete poet as avant gardener

   Ian Hamilton Finlay: the concrete poet as avant gardener

   Ana Castello - 13.10.2018 - 16:06

7. Concrete & “What Looks Like Poetry

   Concrete & “What Looks Like Poetry

   Ana Castello - 13.10.2018 - 17:10

8. Interview David Daniels

   Interview David Daniels

   Ana Castello - 16.10.2018 - 16:46

9. Beyond Oral/Digital: Ghanaian Electronic Literature as a Paradigm for African Digital Textuality

   This dissertation speaks to a massive dearth of research in African electronic literature (African e-lit), a discipline that boasts a growing number of works but little scholarship. With African literature incorporating digital technology into its creative process, and with electronic literary criticism focusing on areas outside its predominantly western cannon, African e-lit positions itself as an important area of scholarly endeavor. After considering the implications of placing African e-lit as the direction in which both African literature and electronic literature take, this dissertation looks at three different genres of African e-lit in the context of oral literature. There are analyses of examples of concrete poetry, conceptual poetry, and mobile video games, all from Ghana. Ultimately, the aim of this project is to ascertain the ways in which oral tradition influences the nature, form, and shape of African electronic literature.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 16.10.2018 - 23:20

10. Looking Back while Moving Forward: The Case of Concrete Poetry and Sankofa

    This article considers the intersection between African oral tradition and electronic literature by exploring the potential of Sankofa to interact with concrete poetry in an electronic space. Sankofa is an example of the Adinkra, a set of symbols that were originally created and used by the Akan in West Africa. These symbols have literary value which this article looks at in ways similar to concrete poetry; examining Sankofa as concrete poetry in an electronic context enables a simultaneous dovetailing with as well as convergence from oral and print based modes of engaging with the text: aspects of oral tradition influence this exploration. 

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 27.06.2022 - 18:53

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