If You're Not Free at Work, Where Are You Free: Literature and Social Change
Publishing Details
If You're Not Free at Work, Where Are You Free: Literature and Social Change
By (Author) Tom Wayman
Guernica Editions,Canada
Guernica Editions,Canada
7th August 2018
Canada
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Anthologies
Literature: history and criticism
814.54
Physical Properties
250
Width 152mm, Height 228mm, Spine 15mm
376g
Description
The essays in If You're Not Free At Work, Where Are You Free: Literature and Social Change focus on the interconnection of community/workplace/individual and how literature (and thinking about literature) has a role in social struggles aimed at making that nexus more liberatory. The essays' topics include various social issues in contemporary writing--daily work, narrative, love poems, the teaching (and hence status) of poetry, and postmodernism.
Reviews
The Shadows We Mistake for Love: There is nothing safe about these stories. Linked by the ever-present waft of pot, recurring shady characters, and the setting itself, these stories resemble a close-knit community. Shifting in response to internal and external forces, the Slocan Valley and its inhabitants wholly realized under Waymans deft touch feel simultaneously alive and vulnerable.--Quill and Quire
Author Bio
Since 1973 Tom Wayman has published more than 20 books of poetry and prose, most recently the poetry collection Helpless Angels and a short fiction collection, The Shadows We Mistake for Love. In March 2015 the Vancouver, B.C. Public Library chose him as a "Literary Landmark". The plaque about his contribution to the city's literary heritage highlights his championing of contemporary work writing. www.tomwayman.com.
