Polyvocal Bob Dylan

Nduka Otiono is Assistant Professor at the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, CA. Along with two volumes of poetry and a collection of short stories, he is co-editor of Camouflage: Best of Contemporary Writing from Nigeria (2006).Josh Toth is Associate Professor of English at MacEwan University, CA. He is author of The Passing of Postmodernism: A Spectroanalysis of the Contemporary (2010) and Stranger America: A Narrative Ethics of Exclusion (2018).

• 1. Introduction: The Foreign Sounds of Dylan’s Literary Art.- 2. Restless Epitaphs: Revenance and Dramatic Tension in Bob Dylan’s Early Narratives.- 3. Dylan's Deixis.- 4. Not Just Literature: Exploring the Performative Dimensions of Bob Dylan’s Work.- 5. The Complexities of Freedom and Dylan’s Liberation of the Listener.- 6. “Blowin’ in the Wind”: Bob Dylan, Sam Shepard, and the Question of American Identity.- 7. Bob Dylan’s “Westerns”: Border Crossings and the Flight from “the Domestic”.- 8. “I Don’t Do Sketches from Memory”: Bob Dylan and Autobiography.- 9. Beyond Genre: Lyrics, Literature, and the Influence of Bob Dylan’s Transgressive Creative Imagination.