Poetry in motion : reading performance for the digital age -- Hashtags become chants : the collective poetics of protest -- Commenting in community : poetry's digital aesthetic networks -- Institutionalizing algorithmic aesthetics in slam poetry networks -- Migrating movements : poetry festivals and the limits of digital cosmopolitanism -- But canons continue : Koleka Putuma's Collective amnesia and the digital fight over cultural capital -- Digital poetry and the global creative economy.
Summary:
"Simultaneously transnational and local, poetry in the twenty-first century is produced across digital networks, shaped through local communities, and evaluated on a global scale. It might start on social media, where a video of a poet circulates and goes viral, gaining international attention without ever going through traditional modes of publication. In Networked Poetics, Susanna L. Sacks introduces readers to the southern African poetry scene in Malawi, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, illustrating how contemporary poetry is shaped, from inception to canonization, by the influence of digital media publication. Interweaving ethnographic observation and extensive literary analysis, Sacks demonstrates that, as more artists in Africa reach wider audiences through online publication, poetic form has shifted to reflect social media's aesthetic norms of urgency, immediacy, and populism. These changes have, in turn, challenged elite processes of valuation, forcing literary institutions like prizes, festivals, and curricula to accommodate the digital turn"-- Provided by publisher.
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