Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play

In Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play, Jennifer DeVere Brody places punctuation at center stage. She illuminates the...
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Author: Jennifer DeVere Brody
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Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play by Brody, Jennifer DeVere

Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play

$495.28

Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play

$495.28
Author: Jennifer DeVere Brody
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play, Jennifer DeVere Brody places punctuation at center stage. She illuminates the performative aspects of dots, ellipses, hyphens, quotation marks, semicolons, colons, and exclamation points by considering them in relation to aesthetics and experimental art. Through her readings of texts and symbols ranging from style guides to digital art, from emoticons to dance pieces, Brody suggests that instead of always clarifying meaning, punctuation can sometimes open up space for interpretation, enabling writers and visual artists to interrogate and reformulate notions of life, death, art, and identity politics.

Brody provides a playful, erudite meditation on punctuation's power to direct discourse and, consequently, to shape human subjectivity. Her analysis ranges from a consideration of typography as a mode for representing black subjectivity in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man to a reflection on hyphenation and identity politics in light of Strunk and White's prediction that the hyphen would disappear from written English. Ultimately, Brody takes punctuation off the "stage of the page" to examine visual and performance artists' experimentation with non-grammatical punctuation. She looks at different ways that punctuation performs as gesture in dances choreographed by Bill T. Jones, in the hybrid sculpture of Richard Artschwager, in the multimedia works of the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, and in Miranda July's film Me and You and Everyone We Know. Brody concludes with a reflection on the future of punctuation in the digital era.



Author: Jennifer DeVere Brody
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 05/21/2008
Pages: 236
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.17h x 6.12w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780822342359


Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 10/17/2008 pg. 21

About the Author

Jennifer DeVere Brody is Associate Professor of English, African American Studies, and Performance Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture, also published by Duke University Press.


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