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On Community
Casey Plett
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We need community to live. But what does it look like? Why does it
often feel like it's slipping away? We are all hinged to some
definition of a community, be it as simple as where we live,
complex as the beliefs we share, or as intentional as those we call
family. In an episodic personal essay, Casey Plett draws on a range
of firsthand experiences to start a conversation about the larger
implications of community as a word, an idea, and a symbol. With
each thread a cumulative definition of community, and what it has
come to mean to Plett, emerges. Looking at phenomena from
transgender literature, to Mennonite history, to hacker houses of
Silicon Valley, and the rise of nationalism in North America, Plett
delves into the thorny intractability of community's boons and
faults. Deeply personal, authoritative in its illuminations, On
Community is an essential contribution to the larger cultural
discourse that asks how, and to what socio-political ends, we form
bonds with one another.Â
After Realism: 24 Stories for the 21st Century is the first
anthology to represent the generation of millennial writers now
making their mark. Diverse, sophisticated, and ambitious in scope,
the short stories in this ground-breaking book are an essential
starting point for anyone interested in daring alternatives to the
realist tradition that dominated 20th century English-language
fiction. After Realism offers twenty-five distinctive talents who
are pushing against the boundaries of the “real” in
aesthetically and politically charged ways—forging their styles
from influences that range from myth to autofiction, sci-fi to
fairy tale, documentary to surrealism. Even those who continue to
work in the realist tradition are doing so critically, with an eye
to renovation. The selection is accompanied by comprehensive and
provocative essay by editor AndrÉ Forget that explains the themes,
tendencies, and concerns of this group. In bearing witness to an
extraordinary flowering of contemporary fiction, After Realism will
supply a new standard for Canadian writing.
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