small things
a random selection of anti-essays
Published on 1. October 2018
88 pages
978-1-77183-294-6 (ISBN)
Description
small things is a book of mini-anti-essays, part of Sky Gilbert's project to dismantle and challenge the rigid classifications of genre. The purpose of this kind of genre bending is to challenge 21st century notions of truth. Inspired by Oscar Wilde, Foucault, and the post-structuralist project, the small writings in small things are story, essay, and memoir combined. They challenge the notion that an essay is necessarily fact, or fair opinion, or even informed opinion, while at the same time challenging the notion that fiction might necessarily be free of didacticism, or at least, ideas.
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Sky Gilbert is a professor, theatre director and drag queen extraordinaire. He has written seven novels, three books of poetry and a memoir. He has won numerous awards for his theatre work. In 2014, Guernica Editions published Compulsive Acts: Essays, Interviews, Reflections on the Works of Sky Gilbert. He lives in Hamilton.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- a clue.
- another.
- speculations on a mystery.
- cornell george hopley-woolrich.
- is it true?
- a disappearance.
- clues, but no mystery.
- questions.
- twelve years old.
- small children make me cry.
- alice and peter pan, yes.
- i didn't believe in aids.
- there was a woman.
- special.
- the daddiad.
- small humiliations.
- nude restaurant.
- the generation that won't die.
- seniors shakespeare.
- unimpressed by unimpressed.
- the oppression olympics.
- reptilian nightmare child.
- as death sits so immediately before them, smiling.
- nick saul and the end of the world.
- Lynne Kositsky in the now.
- the mediocrity of it all.
- shakespeare and misprision.
- I am loathe to reveal this .
- secret places.
- faggy voices.
- the vanishing lesbian.
- when you don't want to be seen.
- why don't I step aside?
- we are your servants (for general idea).
- foucault at the end.
- i will call him garth drizzle.
- invictus.
- small things: crusts.
- About the author
