Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-241) and index.
Contents:
pt. I. The breakthrough of dissident surrealism. 1. The Collège de Sociologie and dissident surrealism -- pt. II. The explosion of surrealism in Hispanic America and the Divin fou of natural time. 2. Hispanic American and Caribbean surrealism and the colligative of Alejo Carpentier's Lo real maravilloso ; 3. Postcolonial dissident surrealist mediums : geotemporal conflations of the isles of paradise in Alejo Carpentier's The lost steps -- pt. III. The manifestation of surrealism in Britain and a sociological Divin fou. 4. The brief moment of British surrealism, its social and divergent paths ; 5. Modalities of the female surrealist : the therianthrope of the sacred quest in Leonora Carrington's The hearing trumpet -- pt. IV. The rise of Romanian surrealism and Amour divin fou. 6. The Balkans and Romanian avant-garde : communism in South-Eastern Europe ; 7. Europe's eastern surrealist meanings : the gift of the primoridal waters in Gellu Naum's Zenobia -- pt. 5. Surrealism's revolutionary consciousness : the Collège de Sociologie's extensions to surrealist theory and reading international surrealism. 8. Theorem, theorie, theōreō.
Summary:
The minor surrealist genre of prose literature is considered herein, rather than surrealism's mainstay, poetry, with the intention of fracturing preconceptions regarding the medium of surrealist expression. The aim is to explore whether International surrealism can begin to be more fully explained by an occluded strain of 'dissident' surrealist thought that searches outside the self through the affects of ekstasis. Bretonian surrealism is widely discussed in the field of surrealist studies, and there is a need to consider what is left out of surrealist practice when analysed through this Bretonian lens. The Collège de Sociologie and Georges Bataille's theories provide a model of such elements of 'dissident' surrealism, which is used to analyse surrealist or surrealist influenced prose by Alejo Carpentier, Leonora Carrington and Gellu Naum respectively representing postcolonial, feminist and Balkan locutions. The Collège and Bataille's 'dissident' surrealism diverges significantly from the concerns and approach towards the subject explored by surrealism. Using the concept of ekstasis to organise Bataille's theoretical ideas of excess and 'inner experience' and the Collège's thoughts on the sacred it is possible to propose a new way of reading types of International surrealist literature, many of which do not come to the forefront of the surrealist literary oeuvre. -- From publisher's website.
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