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Poetic Revolutionaries is an exploration of the relationship between radical textual practice, social critique and subversion. From an introduction considering recent debates regarding the cultural politics of intertextuality allied to avant-garde practice, the study proceeds to an exploration of texts by a range of writers for whom formal and poetic experimentation is allied to a subversive politics: Jean Genet, Monique Wittig, Angela Carter, Kathy Acker, Kathleen Mary Fallon, Kim Scott and Brian Castro. Drawing on theories of avant-garde practice, intertextuality, parody, representation, and performance such as those of Mikhaïl Bakhtin, Julia Kristeva, Gérard Genette, Margaret A. Rose, Linda Hutcheon, Fredric Jameson, Ross Chambers and Judith Butler, these readings explore how a confluence of writing strategies â covering the structural, narratological, stylistic and scenographic â can work to boost a textâs subversive power.
âPoetic Revolutionaries is an exemplary textbook study on leading Australian and international experimental fiction writers. It is a scholarly work of broad, encompassing literary theory and criticism. [â¦] Amid early twenty-first century crises â climate change and global warming, peak oil, widespread poverty and injustice, mass migration and species extinction â I think of Campbellâs texts, creative and critical, as lifeboats, hovercraft with air-borne capacity, passenger-full and powering-up for a new creative departure.â - Moya Costello, Southern Cross University, Australia, in: textjournal, Vol. 20.1 [Full text available: http://www.textjournal.com.au/april16/costello_rev.htm]
"Marion May Campbell has long been one of Australiaâs leading experimental writers, and one of the most innovative feminist writers to have emerged in the 1980s when Australian womenâs writing became a significant presence in Australian publishing. Having studied in France, the influence of French critical theory on her development of an écriture féministe is marked by rigour and critique only gained by being part of the context of production. Indeed, if one were to trace the configurations of poststructuralism in Australia, Campbellâs work would be a good place to start. So it is an important event when she publishes a major work of literary criticism such as Poetic Revolutionaries: Intertextuality and Subversion [â¦] Regardless of this structural issue, the readings are excellent and the scholarschip is exhaustive, with Campbell able to access many sources in Frenchâyou definitely donât want to skim the footnotes. Cambellâs close reading analyses one or two techniques used in combination with intertextuality by each writer, but she is also careful to contextualize each work and their transgressive shock when first published/performed." â Margaret Henderson, University of Queensland, in: JASAL: Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 12.5
"Campbellâs work is rooted in the relativist revolution [â¦] and her intense, erudite study addresses a state of disunion that has loosely bound the dwindling body of progressives ever since. [It] is rich and compelling, and deeply intelligent. Ultimately, its rhythms and precision present a kind of musical clarity. [â¦] It is not only Campbellâs analysis that is trenchant and compelling. In many places she employs some exquisite turns of expression that light up the page." - John Kendall Hawkins (writer), in: Cordite Poetry Review 1 August 2014.
A short video-interview with Marion May Campbell, who refuses to be pessimistic about the power of literature to modify perception. She focuses on 3 Australian authors who continue in the avant-garde tradition and all have an interest in the metamorphic body; in becoming an animal. []
"Marion May Campbell has long been one of Australiaâs leading experimental writers, and one of the most innovative feminist writers to have emerged in the 1980s when Australian womenâs writing became a significant presence in Australian publishing. Having studied in France, the influence of French critical theory on her development of an écriture féministe is marked by rigour and critique only gained by being part of the context of production. Indeed, if one were to trace the configurations of poststructuralism in Australia, Campbellâs work would be a good place to start. So it is an important event when she publishes a major work of literary criticism such as Poetic Revolutionaries: Intertextuality and Subversion [â¦] Regardless of this structural issue, the readings are excellent and the scholarschip is exhaustive, with Campbell able to access many sources in Frenchâyou definitely donât want to skim the footnotes. Cambellâs close reading analyses one or two techniques used in combination with intertextuality by each writer, but she is also careful to contextualize each work and their transgressive shock when first published/performed." â Margaret Henderson, University of Queensland, in: JASAL: Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 12.5
"Campbellâs work is rooted in the relativist revolution [â¦] and her intense, erudite study addresses a state of disunion that has loosely bound the dwindling body of progressives ever since. [It] is rich and compelling, and deeply intelligent. Ultimately, its rhythms and precision present a kind of musical clarity. [â¦] It is not only Campbellâs analysis that is trenchant and compelling. In many places she employs some exquisite turns of expression that light up the page." - John Kendall Hawkins (writer), in: Cordite Poetry Review 1 August 2014.
A short video-interview with Marion May Campbell, who refuses to be pessimistic about the power of literature to modify perception. She focuses on 3 Australian authors who continue in the avant-garde tradition and all have an interest in the metamorphic body; in becoming an animal. []
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The fetishised coupling: poetics and revolution
Chapter One: Jean Genetâs transgressive scenography
Chapter Two: Monique Wittigâs Le corps lesbien/The Lesbian Body
Chapter Three: Re-materialising the disappearing body in Angela Carterâs The Bloody Chamber
Chapter Four: Kathy Acker or Catheter the Hack
Chapter Five: Textual intercourse: Kathleen Mary Fallonâs Working Hot
Chapter Six: Kim Scottâs Benang: From the Heart
Chapter Seven: Radical disorientation in Brian Castroâs Shanghai Dancing
In guise of conclusion
Appendix: ironic trans-contextualisation in a work of postmodern parody
Works cited
Index
Introduction: The fetishised coupling: poetics and revolution
Chapter One: Jean Genetâs transgressive scenography
Chapter Two: Monique Wittigâs Le corps lesbien/The Lesbian Body
Chapter Three: Re-materialising the disappearing body in Angela Carterâs The Bloody Chamber
Chapter Four: Kathy Acker or Catheter the Hack
Chapter Five: Textual intercourse: Kathleen Mary Fallonâs Working Hot
Chapter Six: Kim Scottâs Benang: From the Heart
Chapter Seven: Radical disorientation in Brian Castroâs Shanghai Dancing
In guise of conclusion
Appendix: ironic trans-contextualisation in a work of postmodern parody
Works cited
Index