Polyvocal Bob Dylan: Music, Performance, Literature [Hardcover]

Polyvocal Bob Dylan brings together an interdisciplinary range of scholarly voices to explore the cultural and aesthetic impact of Dylans musical and literary production. Significantly distinct in approach, each chapter draws attention to the function and implications of certain aspects of Dylan's workhis tendency to confuse, question, and subvert literary, musical, and performative traditions. Polyvocal Bob Dylan places Dylans textual and performative art within and against a larger context of cultural and literary studies. In doing so, it invites readers to reassess how Dylans Nobel Prizewinning work fits into and challenges traditional conceptions of literature.

 

1. Introduction: The Foreign Sounds of Dylans Literary Art.- 2. Restless Epitaphs: Revenance and Dramatic Tension in Bob Dylans Early Narratives.- 3. Dylan's Deixis.- 4. Not Just Literature: Exploring the Performative Dimensions of Bob Dylans Work.- 5. The Complexities of Freedom and Dylans Liberation of the Listener.- 6. Blowin in the Wind: Bob Dylan, Sam Shepard, and the Question of American Identity.- 7. Bob Dylans Westerns: Border Crossings and the Flight from the Domestic.- 8. I Dont Do Sketches from Memory: Bob Dylan and Autobiography.- 9. Beyond Genre: Lyrics, Literature, and the Influence of Bob Dylans Transgressive Creative Imagination.

Nduka Otiono is Assistant Professor at the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, CA. Along with two volumes of poetry and a collection of short stories, he is co-editor of Camouflage: Best of Contemporary Writing from Nigeria (2006).

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