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Writing through Merce: John Cage's Silence, Differends, and Avant-Garde Idioms
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 45, Number 2, June 2012
- pp. 19-37
- 10.1353/mos.2012.a479198
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract
This essay explores John Cage's silence about his homosexuality in relation to Jean-François Lyotard's theorizations of the differend and the avant-garde. Examining several of Cage's poems, I argue that Cage's silence was a source of strength and that Cage silently spoke his homosexuality in avant-garde idioms.
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