Revisionary and cross-disciplinary, this monograph series challenges ideas of periodisation and genre, and fosters new perspectives on twentieth and twenty-first century avant-garde writing that contest critical orthodoxies. The cultural frames of literary texts will be considered including twenty-first century cultural and political contexts (e.g. forced migration, social justice, and the Information Age) and theoretical contexts (e.g. critical race theory, queer theory, feminisms, Marxism). Published works will explore the way in which avant-garde works operate in the modern and contemporary climate, for example after the revolutionary moment of Occupy in 2011 and Black Lives Matter in 2013. Attentive to the relationship between form and aesthetic politics, the works published will interrogate how to read literature considered experimental, and resistant to conventional modes of meaning. Problematising the notion of literary, cultural and temporal borders, the series embraces work that defies such perimeters through exploring new and neglected avenues in the field, such as avant-garde translation, ethnic avant-gardes and digital avant-gardes.
