De-Canon + Fonograf Editions Hybrid-Lit Anthology

What is hybridity? What does it mean, and why does it matter now, to pay heed to hybrid modes of writing and art, to confluences of aesthetic mediums, to processes that make visible the seams and in-between spaces of the realms we ‘make’ in? How does the hybrid form potentially re-define “writing”? And, what fuels a writer/artist to construct forms of their own hybrid making, to blend or reconfigure or dissolve the established lines between modes of ‘voicing’? In this anthology we wish to investigate how and why the hybrid space resonates as it does, notably for BIPOC women and nonbinary writers, who may use such modes to elasticize and elude definitions, defy and blur boundaries, and thus reimagine paradigmatic possibilities. We see the medium of language as a complexly riddled and rife material of the 21st century, one that is multi-textu(r)al (textual and con-textual), made of more than words, interwoven, punctured, fragmented, grafted, possessing power to construct and deconstruct, fed into by many rivers of experience: our marginalizations and migrations, diasporas and displacements, invisibilities and hyper-visibilities. We are interested in how writers of hybrid natures and minority backgrounds are devising ways of working with language that both subvert and re-form the dominant narratives that language (notably: English) has been used, historically, to uphold. Our exploration of hybrid forms is also an exploration of the creative possibilities of language, filtered through varying modalities, from image to sound to object, and how this results in new richnesses of reading and perceiving. We are especially interested in works that reach beyond the textual to engage multiple sense faculties and cross-disciplines: sight, sound, somatic experiences; performance, multimedia, music, installation, and more. We are interested in intersections of literature and visual art, image and text, text and sound, photography and writing, text and orality, book and object, performance and print, and many other experiments. We are also interested in process or creative scholarship that speculates and contextualizes about hybrid literary forms. We define “hybrid” as meaning work that is multimodal and inhabits intersections, but still uses language as a primary material. (Per this parameter, we also understand that language might not always employ words.)

Country of Publication & Year Established

United States

Established in 2021