NEW PUBLICATION: Online Encyclopedia of Literary Neo-Avant-Gardes
The OELN or Online Encyclopedia of Literary Neo-Avant-Gardes is a new online academic publication available at www.oeln.net. Its mission is to present and contextualize postwar literary experimentation across languages and cultures. By means of accessible introductions, readers are initiated into the literary aims, strategies, and themes of postwar authors, works, and movements showing affinity with the avant-gardes.
Already online are, among others, entries on Christine Brooke-Rose, Witold Gombrowicz, Friederike Mayröcker, the Novi Sad art scene, Michel Butor’s Mobile and Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka’s The Dead Lecturer. Another section of the OELN is devoted to concepts central to the literary neo-avant-garde, such as “montage” and “minimalism”, and the OELN also contains a brief introduction to the theory of the neo-avant-garde. The OELN will continue to grow. Together, its entries add to our knowledge of recent experimental traditions and will make those neo-avant-gardes more visible to an international readership.
The OELN is an initiative of the research community ENAG (www.enag.be). It is edited by literary scholars from universities based in Brussels, Ghent, Leuven, Liège, Paris, and Vienna. If you are interested in contributing to the encyclopedia, please reach out to us.