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Dear colleagues, I would like to let you know about a book that I have recently published that may be of interest to this list's members. Full details appear below. Best wishes, Jacob Edmond Jacob Edmond _A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature_ (New York: Fordham UP, 2012), 272 pages, 19 black and white illustrations; ISBN: 9780823242603 (paperback); 9780823242597 (hardcover); e-book also available Why is our world still understood through binary oppositions--East and West, local and global, particular and general, common and strange__that ought to have crumbled with the Berlin Wall? What might literary responses to the events that ushered in our era of globalization tell us about the rhetorical and historical underpinnings of these dichotomies? _A Common Strangeness_ addresses the relation between the general and the particular in our age of globalization. As an antidote to dichotomies, _A Common Strangeness_ presents a more complex picture of cross-cultural encounters and entanglements. The book begins with the entrance of China into multinational capitalism and the appearance of the Parisian flaneur in the writings of a Chinese poet exiled in Auckland, New Zealand. Moving among poetic examples in Russian, Chinese, and English, _A Common Strangeness_ then traces a series of encounters shaped by economic and geopolitical events from the Cultural Revolution, perestroika, and the June 4 massacre to the collapse of the Soviet Union, September 11, and the invasion of Iraq. In these encounters, I track a shared concern with strangeness through which poets contested old binary oppositions as they reemerged in new, post-Cold War forms. In this way, the book sheds new light on the patterns of literary making and cosmopolitan thinking that drive the aesthetics of globalization today. Table of Contents Introduction 1. Yang Lian and the Flaneur in Exile 2. Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and Poetic Correspondences 3. Lyn Hejinian and Russian Estrangement 4. Bei Dao and World Literature 5. Dmitri Prigov and Cross-Cultural Conceptualism 6. Charles Bernstein and Broken English Conclusion Notes Works Cited For further information, see http://fordhampress.com/index.php/a-common-strangeness-paperback.html<http://fordhampress.com/detail.html?id=9780823242603> or http://commonstrangeness.wordpress.com Extracts from the book can be read on Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=Kq3M4yE0MI4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=a+common+strangeness&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pVzVT-PBA6zsmAWM3PHxAg&ved=0CDUQuwUwAA Recently published: A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature "Edmond?s is a provocative, exciting, and genuinely original study of the new poetics; we will all be learning from it!???Marjorie Perloff "Edmond?s shrewd account of literary crossings in post-Cold War history helps us imagine how we can experience the challenge of new literary configurations."??Jonathan Culler http://commonstrangeness.wordpress.com -------------------------------------- Jacob Edmond, Associate Professor Dept. of English, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand http://www.otago.ac.nz/english/staff/edmond.html -------------------------------------- -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.