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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-pdf/28/1/154/1576284/154perloff.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 12 July 2022 Sophie Seita, Provisional Avant- Gardes: Little Magazine Communities from Dada to Digital (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019), 256 pp. The term avant- garde continues to generate controversy. “Previous avant- garde theorists,” Seita writes— and I am included on her list— “have tended to con- sider avant- gardes as monolithic, homogeneous, and historical entities outside their material and social contexts. They have either tended to repeat the self- theorizations of avant- garde writers or have based their interpretations on a very selective range of documents and objects.” In response, Seita’s own study promises to “fill [the] gap by offering an extensive diachronic study of avant- garde print communities beyond modernism.” The “communities” in question, based on an examination of American “little” magazines, include “New York Proto- Dada,” “Proto- Conceptualisms,” “Proto- Language and New Narrative,” “Feminist Avant- gardes” and “Communities of Print in the Digital Age.” The repeated “Proto” is meant to signal Seita’s view that more attention should be paid to those on the fringes of avant- garde communities, since the central figures have been discussed again and again. It is too bad that doctoral dissertations (Seita’s book
Common Knowledge – Duke University Press
Published: Jan 1, 2022
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