Family resemblance : an anthology and exploration of 8 hybrid literary genres

Sulak, Marcela Malek, (editor.). Kolosov, Jacqueline A., (editor.).

Summary: When we talk about hybrid literary genres, what do we mean? Unprecedented in both its scope and approach, FAMILY RESEMBLANCE is the first anthology to explore the answer to that question in depth, providing craft essays and examples of hybrid forms by 43 distinguished authors. In this study of eight hybrid genres--including lyric essay, epistolary, poetic memoir, prose poetry, performative, short-form nonfiction, flash fiction, and pictures made of words--the family tree of hybridity takes delightful shape, showcasing how cross-genre works blend features from multiple literary parents to create new entities, forms that feel more urgent than ever in today's increasingly heterogeneous landscape. Introductions and an afterword discuss the importance and current popularity of hybridity in literature and culture and offer methods for teaching hybrid works. Intended for both scholarly and general readers, this seminal collection sparkles with inventiveness and creative zeal--an essential guidebook to a developing field. -- Amazon.com.

Record details

ISBN: 9781941628027
ISBN: 1941628028
Physical Description: print
xxxiii, 429 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Publisher: Brookline, MA : Rose Metal Press, 2015.

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Local, organic, and living : a preface / Marcela Sulak -- Riddling the Sphinx : an introduction to hybridity / Susanne Paola Antonetta -- Section 1: Lyric essay. Introduction ; Writing violence, writing time / Julie Carr ; Blurring the Magisteria : science as fact, science as metaphor / Susanne Paola Antonetta ; Assault hybridity : the disintegrating lyric/mother I / Sarah Vap ; Stuttering into relationship : excerpts from How literature saved my life / David Shields ; The new critic on the couch / Kathleen Ossip -- Section 2: Epistolary. Introduction ; The epistolary enterprise : fusing artifact and art / Julie Marie Wade ; Poems embedded in letters : on The archaeology of movies & books / Diane Wakoski ; Take a lily, for instance : trying to capture the "real" of writing poetry / Amy Newman ; Buffoonery and the poetic : writing short letters / Joe Wenderoth ; Poetry that isn't poetry : the fragment as center in Postcards to Donald Evans / Takashi Hiraide ; Autobiography of a hybrid narrative : finding a form for trauma / Joy Ladin -- Section 3: Poetic memoir. Introduction ; Friendship and Process: This project's birth story / Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker ; I am no hybrid, no other than myself : on writing Bright felon / Kazim Ali ; Necessary ambiguity : exploring hyphenate identity / Jennifer Bartlett ; Not notes, not aphorisms, not fragments, not poetry: composing Bluets / Maggie Nelson ; Writable radiance: notes on the hybrid of lyric and prose / Gregory Orr -- Section 4: Prose poetry. Introduction ; It's dark in there: confessions of a prose poem / Sabrina Orah Mark ; Amplitude : on the possibilities of prose / Mary Szybist ; King James and the prose poem / Mark Jarman ; Pointing at things: a short guide to writing photographically / Tung-Hui Hu ; How I became a detective : prose poetry and post-confessional aesthetics / Carol Guess.