BABEL AFTER FASCISM

Though that preposition may no longer hold—at Rutgers, I'll be presenting a draft from a book project in progress, From Babel to Pentecost: Wireless Imaginations in Postwar Literary Arts and the Dream (or Nightmare) of a Transnational Language. The piece being presented is titled "To Whistle in the Fasces of Uniform Graphemes: Babel After Fascism." Please join me and the modernists of New York and New Jersey in New Brunswick!NYNJ Modernism Seminar with Jennifer Scappettone Fri, Feb 10, 12-2 pm Van Dyke 301 (History Dept Seminar Room), Rutgers University, New Brunswick

new york, performance, poesy, rome, são paulo, tokyo, traductionJ. ScappettoneAmelia Rosselli, Antonio Gramsci, babel, Emilio Villa, Fortunato Depero, Marinetti, pentecost, vagula, xenoglossia