Steve McCaffery

Alice Through the Working Class

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Produktbeschreibung

Witty, acerbic at times, and magisterially researched Alice through the Working Class introduces its readers to a new cast of characters and encounters including Mary Wollstonecraft, Lenin, Trotsky, Fidel Castro, Tsar Nicholas II and such historic figures as Prince Kropotkin and Emma Goldberg. Through a mischievous application of the law of the approximate homophone "Looking Glass" changes into "Working Class" and Alice is plunged into a new (for her) historical dimension. Witty, acerbic at times, and magisterially researched Alice through the Working Class introduces its readers to a new cast of characters and encounters including Mary Wollstonecraft, Lenin, Trotsky, Fidel Castro, Tsar Nicholas II and such historic figures as Prince Kropotkin and Emma Goldberg. Throughout McCaffery is faithful to Carroll's own style, syntax, and vocabulary; the three can be sensed palimpsestically as can the original illustrations by John Tenniel in Clelia Scala's forty-two delightful and at times mordantly witty visual collages. Now, nine years later Alice through the Working Class and the second of McCaffery's "Carroll Caprices," joins its sister text Alice in Plunderland (Book*hug Press 2015). Might we expect then an Alice through the Cooking Class and an Alice in Sunderland? "From a man who once gave us a translation into the dialect of South Yorkshire of The Communist Manifesto (by Charlie Marx and Fred Engels, two North of England chaps) no icon of our culture is safe. So, having sent poor Alice down into Plunderland, the underworld of Toronto junkies, McCaffery, with his customary linguistic wit, now takes her through the working-class, into the industrial revolution, where Mary Wollstonecraft is the Red Queen, and the Soviet workers' paradise, where Lenin is the Lion and the Unicorn is Trotsky. And, horribile dictu, it works. Don't miss the Bolshevik Jabberwocky."--Jean-Jacques Lecercle, author of Philosophy through the Looking Glass. Fiction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blazevox Books
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781609644673
• ISBN-10: 1609644670
• Artikelnr.: 70177679

Autorenporträt

Steve McCaffery has been twice nominated for the Governor General's Award and is the author of more than 40 books of poetry and criticism. A selection of his explorations in numerous forms can be savored in the two volumes of SEVEN PAGES MISSING (Coach House Press 2001-02) as well as PANOPTICON (Book Thug, 1984) and The Darkness of the Present: Poetics, anachronism and the anomaly (University of Alabama Press, 2012). His book-object- concept A Little Manual of Treason was commissioned for the 2011 Shajah Biennale in the United Arab Emirates. His most recent books are Tatterdemalion (Veer Books, 2014); ALICE IN PLUNDERLAND (Book Thug, 2015); Revanches, a collection of visual and concrete poetry (Xexoxial, 2015); and PARSIVAL (Roof Books, 2015). English born and a long-time resident of Toronto, he was a co-founder of the Toronto Research Group (TRG), the sound poetry ensemble Four Horsemen, and the College of Canadian Pataphysics. Since 2004 he has been the David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters at the University at Buffalo.