The Real Made Up
ISBN-13: 9781554907960
Contributor(s): Stephen Brockwell
Subjects: Poetry
Publisher: Ecw Press
Publisher Imprint: Ecw Press Digital
Publication Date: 01-10-2007
Format: PDF
Availability: In stock
£6.99
About the book
From the moment we learn to speak we are always using other people s words. the real made up improvises on this simple idea of imitation; mimicry becomes a kind of cadence for an interweaving of transcribed speech, ironic song, jarring randomization, post-colonial irony, and blatant theft. An incessant imitative dialogue shapes our neural and cultural networks; imitation is a source of power for any subculture, and the primary means of a colonizing process that should be seen as violent. But imitation is not a simple act of copying; at its best, imitation is