A group of young, clueless, cannibalistic revolutionaires are attempting to take over a serene suburban hamlet and they are using some very unique methods. A satirical romp through the suburban landscape and the lifestyles therein, Drive-by Cannibalism in the Baroque Tradition is also a study of the dynamics of revolutionary upheaval. It is equally about the processes of formal and linguistic invention, about character creation, story-telling, fiction-making, and the fashioning of artistic artifacts out of reality.
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His writing is a celebration, a joyous occasion. A feast, a festival, a parade… His, if anything, is a post-national read, a post-categorical writing, a post-immigrant thought. He is post about anything and everything… --Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Chair of MEALAC, Columbia University
Across his multingual repertoire, whether in the uncategorizable Tractatuus Philosophika-Poeticuus, or the only apparently more conventional Drive-By Cannibalism, Mr. Parsa has begun to synthesize imagination and memory in mind-boggling ways that will undoubtedly inspire the best thinkers, writers, and students of the new millennium. --Jessica Deutsch, poet and writer
Across his multingual repertoire, whether in the uncategorizable Tractatuus Philosophika-Poeticuus, or the only apparently more conventional Drive-By Cannibalism, Mr. Parsa has begun to synthesize imagination and memory in mind-boggling ways that will undoubtedly inspire the best thinkers, writers, and students of the new millennium. --Jessica Deutsch, poet and writer
About the Author
Amir Parsa was born in Tehran in 1968 and grew up in Iran and the U.S. while attending French international schools. He holds degrees from Princeton and Columbia universities and currently lives in New York, where he is a Lecturer and Educator at the Museum of Modern Art and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mr. Parsa was the featured author of Editions Caractères at its fiftieth anniversary in 2000. His work has been read and displayed at the Salon du livre, at events hosted by Printemps des Poètes, at the Conciergerie and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France as well as other cultural centers and venues. His literary work has garnered the attention of critics and scholars both in the U.S. and France, and he was included in the anthology of new French and Francophone poets, the Nouvelle Anthologie des poètes français et francophones (Ed. Huguet 2004). Most recently, Mr. Parsa was a participant in the Salon du livre in France in 2006 ("Francofffonies!") with a reading and discussion with French critics around his polyphonic oeuvre. He was also featured in Artpress magazine, one of France s leading magazines covering innovative art, literature and culture, in 2006. In addition, he has been a main contributor to Underfire, an international forum on the representation of armed conflict created by artist Jordan Crandall, which has had showings at the Witte de With Museum in Rotterdam and is included in this year s Seville Biannual. Out of his multifarious experiences and his scholarly research, Mr. Parsa has embarked on an enterprise that radically challenges our perception of the world as well as various fields of knowledge. Writing in English, French and Persian, he exposes the essence of cultural and linguistic ruptures, of wandering and divided selves, of fragments and totalities. Each of his books interweaves various literary genres to create new ones, employs various registers of textuality and explores possibilities unique to each language. Characters are
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