Inside job
Subtitle: essays on the new work writing
By: Tom Wayman.
Publisher: Harbour; Harbour Publishing
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Madeira Park, B.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 101
Subjects: Canadian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Work in literature.; Working class writings, Canadian -- History and criticism.; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Working class writings, American -- History and criticism.; Working class -- United States -- Intellectual life.; Working class -- Canada -- Intellectual life.; Working class in literature.; North America -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Description: "One powerful taboo that still remains in our literature today is the taboo against discussing our most central daily experience: working for a living. Poet and editor Tom Wayman believes that with the recent appearance of a new kind of work writing we have begun at last to see the end of this limitation. In his essays gathered in Inside Job Wayman considers this new fiction, poetry and drama and argues that the new writing will change not only the literature of the future but also what we value from the literature of the past. Wayman demonstrates as well how the new work writing differs from 1930s-style 'socialist realism.' Inside Job shows for the first time why an accurate presentation of our work will be increasingly the subject our best authors choose in the 1980s and for generations to come. Inside Job includes a selected bibliography of recent work writing."--Back cover.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 97-101.