The relationship between documentary modalities and social resistance poetry.įrench and American documentary epistemologies and documentary poetry as alternatives to the viewpoints and subjects of mass media journalism.ĭocumentary poetry as an “investigative poetics” and as an “investigative poetry” (P. How poetry works with pre-existing cultural documents to uncover hidden historical claims and voices.ĭocumentary poetics and the question of appropriation. How might this poetry help readers to become “virtual witnesses”? What alternatives to the model of ‘temoignage’ and ‘witness’ can be proposed?
The documentary traditions of innovation and experiment in French and American poetry and how such traditions are articulated with political, economic, and social struggles periodization and the documentary traditionsĬontradictory tensions: documentary poetry as resistance to and a haven for the personal.ĭocumentary poetry takes as its primary subject historical events and the people who are the perpetrators and victims of such events. Topics may include but are not limited to:
How do contemporary poets in the US and France position themselves in relation to popular political protest and activism? What use are they making of experimental documentary traditions (whose practices can be placed along a continuum from “subjective” auto-ethnographies to “objective” documentary tendencies)? How does writing outside France and the US relate to these two centers for poetry and poetics? What challenges does this offer to conceptions of the relation between poetry as an art form and other social and political utterances and actions? The conference will also look at the history of documentary poetry traditions in France and the United States, locating this history in an international, transnational, and pluri-disciplinary context. The American University of Paris announces a call for papers for a documentary poetry conference to be held 15-17 June 2023 at the American University of Paris. “Documentary Poetry, Popular Protest and Activism : An International Poetry and Poetics Seminar”Ĭo-Directors: Geoff Gilbert and William Dow.
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