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Dada/Surrealism (ISSN: 0084-9537 (Print) 2372-6725 (Online), ISSN-L 0084-9537) is an interdisciplinary journal publishing critical essays, bibliographies, book reviews, and primary documents on the Dada and Surrealist movements. Submissions are encouraged from scholars in Art History, Literature, Film Studies, Theater Arts, and a variety of other disciplines. We are especially receptive to contributions that use interdisciplinary techniques, reexamine basic concepts, or raise theoretical issues of contemporary interest. Dada/Surrealism is a peer-reviewed, open-access electronic journal sponsored by the Association for the Study of Dada and Surrealism and published by the International Dada Archive, University of Iowa Libraries.
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Volume 25 • 2025 • Approximate Humanism: Tristan Tzara
About the image:
Tristan Tzara and E. F. Burian, Director of the theatre company D 47 that staged the first performance of La fuite in Prague in 1946. Bibliothèque Littéraire Jacques Doucet. Reproduced with permission from Marie Thérèse Tzara and Wally Tzara. The dedication reads as follows: “Tristanu Tzarovi na památku jeho milé návštěvy v Praze. E. F. Burian. 17/IV. 1946” ‘To Tristan Tzara, in memory of his delightful visit to Prague. E. F. Burian. 17 April 1946.’ Thanks to Jan Čulík for the transcription and translation.
General Editor's Note
Introduction
Introduction: The Flight into Approximate Humanism
- Erica O’Neill
- Stephen Forcer
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Theme Essay
Flight from and towards: A Commentary On Tristan Tzara’s The Flight
- Erica O’Neill
- Stephen Forcer
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The Flight: A Dramatic Poem in Four Acts and an Epilogue
- Tristan Tzara
- Erica O’Neill
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La Fuite: Poème Dramatique en Quatre Actes et en Épilogue
- Tristan Tzara
Volume 25 • 2025 • Approximate Humanism: Tristan Tzara • 1-48
A Songbook for Liberty: Céline Arnauld’s Poems of War and Exile
- Ruth Hemus
Volume 25 • 2025 • Approximate Humanism: Tristan Tzara • 1-16
Tristan Tzara’s Post-War (Post)humanist Words: A Translator’s Introduction to “Straw Words”
- Heather Green
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Straw Words (Mots de paille) From Speaking Alone (Parler seul)
- Tristan Tzara
- Heather Green
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The Rhythm of Life in Tzara’s Midis gagnés
- Takuma Ito
Volume 25 • 2025 • Approximate Humanism: Tristan Tzara • 1-15
Tristan Tzara in Love: Son, Husband, and Father
- Mădălina Lascu
Volume 25 • 2025 • Approximate Humanism: Tristan Tzara • 1-23
Elective Affinities: Tristan Tzara and Jean Cocteau Against the Grain
- Felicity Gee
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Voices from the Dead: The Approximately Intersecting Sound-Worlds of Tristan Tzara and Adolf Loos, 1924-1933
- Edward Slopek
Volume 25 • 2025 • Approximate Humanism: Tristan Tzara • 1-34
A Short Note on FLUiCHTe
- Florian Kaplick
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FLUICHTE: A fugitive poem
- Tristan Tzara
- Kurt Schwitters
- Florian Kaplick
Volume 25 • 2025 • Approximate Humanism: Tristan Tzara • 1-3
Silenced and Celebrated Jewish Identities in Modernism: Tristan Tzara and Giulio Caimi, Isthmi, ‘Littorals’ and Deserts in… Not So Mythical Lands
- Nefeli Zygopoulou
Volume 25 • 2025 • Approximate Humanism: Tristan Tzara • 1-28
From Dada to Black Dada: Adam Pendleton’s Contemporary Dada Activism
- Antonia Rigaud
Volume 25 • 2025 • Approximate Humanism: Tristan Tzara • 1-19
Essay
Aragon’s Modern Mythology and Surrealist Détournement
- Abigail Susik
Volume 25 • 2025 • Approximate Humanism: Tristan Tzara • 1-27
Review
Faire oeuvre à deux: Le livre surréaliste au féminin
- Emily Wieder
Volume 25 • 2025 • Approximate Humanism: Tristan Tzara • 1-3
Marcel Duchamp and the lure of the copy
- Julian Haladyn
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