Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I : Identity K/not/e/s
1. The Jewish Entertainer as Cultural Lightning Rod: The Case of Lenny Bruce
2. Jazz-Jews, Jive, and Gender: The Ethnic Politics of Jazz Argot
3. Triangulated Desire and Tactical Silences in the Beat Hipscape: Bob Kaufman and Others
4. Displaysias: Writing Social Science and Ethnicity in Gertrude Stein and Certain Others
5. Imp/penetrable Archive: Adeena Karasick’s Wall of Sound
Part II : Poetics for a Post Literary America
6. Kinetic Exultations: Postliterary Poetry, Counterperformance, and Micropoetries
7. When the Nuyoricans Came to Town: (Ex)Changing Poetics
8. Avant-garde or Border Guard: (Latino) Identity in Poetry
9. Loneliness, Lyric, Ethnography: Some Discourses on/of the Divided Self
10. Poetries, Micropoetries, Micropoetics: Elegy on the Outskirts
11. Electronic Poetics Assay: Diaspora, Silliness, and—?Gender?
Notes
Bibliography
Index