Lemn Sissay: Defamiliarisation and Performed Palimpsests
This article documents the methods of defamiliarisation that Lemn Sissay uses to prove, test, destabilise, amplify, write and re-write his presence on stage. It suggests the term ‘performed palimpsest’ to describe the introductions, interruptions and splicing together of observation, aside, commenta...
| Format: | Article |
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2020-08-01
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| Series: | Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry |
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| Online Access: | https://poetry.openlibhums.org/article/id/742/ |