If You're Not Free at Work, Where Are You Free
Literature and Social Change
- Publisher
- Guernica Editions
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2018
- Category
- Essays, General, Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781771832878
- Publish Date
- Apr 2018
- List Price
- $25.00
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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.
About the author
Awards
- Short-listed, Poetry Foundation’s 2019 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism (Short-listed)
- Short-listed, George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature (Short-listed)
Excerpt: If You're Not Free at Work, Where Are You Free: Literature and Social Change (by (author) Tom Wayman)
I take comfort and hope in how humanity's march has ever been toward a freer, happier life for an increasing number of our planet's inhabitants despite the roadblocks encountered and retreats endured.
Editorial Reviews
On The Shadows We Mistake for Love: Wayman’s richly textured and tightly structured stories are steeped in history … Shifting in response to internal and external forces, the Slocan Valley and its inhabitants—wholly realized under Wayman’s deft touch—feel simultaneously alive and vulnerable.
Quill & Quire
On Winter's Skin: Passionate and lyrical by turns, didactic at others, insisting that ideals matter, that people must strive for more empathy and honesty, Wayman demands much of his readers. He leaves us, as always, with a fire in the belly and a smile on our lips.
Alberta Views
On Dirty Snow: Vintage Wayman: engaged, observant, prickly, lusty, and open to what the world … [has] to teach us about ourselves.
Canadian Literature
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