Local Colour : Ghosts, variations

• LOCAL COLOUR : Ghosts, variations is a collaboration between In Edit Mode Press and Canadian poet Derek Beaulieu. The publication takes as its point of departure, Paul Auster’s novella Ghosts, and, in particular, Derek Beaulieu’s reworking of Auster’s text, Local Colour. Focusing on the tension created in Beaulieu’s manuscript between the textual narrative and the graphical mark, and the opening it seems to provide toward a realm of intermediality and experimentation, we have solicited a series of textual, aural, oral, musical, and other interpretations, as well as more machinic ‘utilisations,’ of Beaulieu’s manuscript. What interests us, in particular, is the way in which Local Colour seems to split Auster’s narrative text open, deterritorialising it by rendering it graphical and freeing it up, by the same gesture, to a potential excess of meaning. Seeking to extend and amplify this ambitious project, what we attempt with this volume, is to open Beaulieu’s project up for others to split open. We seek to deterritorialise the coloured rectangles of his manuscript – in every sense a violent yet affirmative gesture –  and explore the horizons toward which such violence might take us. In doing so, Local Colour: Ghosts, variations collects and counterposes a wide array of strategies and approaches. It is an ambitious, vigorous collection that oscillates and moves between textual narrative, graphical mark, and aural impression, exploring these different realms while rendering uncertain any easy distinction between them.

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