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If You're Not Free at Work, Where Are You Free

Literature and Social Change

by (author) Tom Wayman

Publisher
Guernica Editions
Initial publish date
Apr 2018
Category
Essays, General, Canadian
  • 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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