Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation

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Front cover of Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation

Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation is a Fiction Collective Two book published by Black Ice Books in 1992 edited by Larry McCaffery. This collection of innovative fiction, graphic art, and various unclassifiable texts written by some of the most radical literary talents who McCaffery classifies as Avantpop. In his introductory chapter, McCaffery calls these writers "a new breed of pop-culture demolition artists".[1] These writers include cult figures such as Kathy Acker, Samuel R. Delany, Harold Jaffe and Derek Pell, as well as young new writers such as Euridice, Mark Leyner, and William T. Vollman.

Critical Reception

Author Tom Robbins called Avant-Pop "A cluster-bomb of crazy fiction from a generation of writers too sane to repeat yesterday's lies".[2] In his 1993 review in Science Fiction Eye, Trace Reddell writes "Here we have a group of writers who have been informed by cyberpunk, postmodern and modern writing, pop culture, and postmodern theory, and they deliver an energetic mix othat is anything but redundant". Russ Kirk describes claims the book is "designed to activate your nervous system directly, bypassing the normal brain centers that are triggered when reading 'normal' material".[3]

Contents

References

  1. "Tsunami...". Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation. Boulder: Black Ice Books, 1993, p19 (ISBN 978-0932511720)
  2. http://www.southernrootspub.com/SRP/Avant-Pop.html
  3. Russ Kirk (1995). Outposts: A Catalog of Rare And Disturbing Alternative Information. Carroll & Graf Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7867-0202-2.

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