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OverviewThis book represents a social and cultural study of a mid-sized Nigerian city. It indicates the structure of the everyday, in a community where hustle and insecurity hasten a world only occasionally recognizable to its founding fathers. The book deals with the struggle for infrastructural progress, with the dynamics of religious faith in a city of one thousand fervent churches, and with the nature of lived time in a culture which has not carefully documented itself. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Frederic WillPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Edition: Unabridged edition Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 21.20cm Weight: 0.204kg ISBN: 9781443867474ISBN 10: 1443867470 Pages: 155 Publication Date: 11 December 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsQuite simply, he interviews the world around him, in the eastern Iowa he's grown to love. First (in Big Rig Souls), he interviews truckers - guys and gals encountered in truckstops around the Midwest, usually in Iowa; then (in Assemblyline Arguments) he lets assembly line workers become his speech - men and women in foundries, feed mills, packing houses; then he turns on inside him the voices of contemporary hog farmers in eastern Iowa. The result of this interviewing, this becoming the language of work in his own environment, is to give Will a new voice of his own, that of the continuity of labor. What he has given me to understand - I look back to my first encounter with his work twenty years ago - is that the shifting borders of poetry and philosophy are fixable stillnesses across which the subtle mesh of Being is constantly moving. In that mesh, of which Will and I have in fact become expressions, catch facets of what-is so brilliant that we must turn away from their glare. - Frank Shynnagh, Opus, Iowa Review, spring/summer 1992 Author InformationFrederic Will is an American writer, and has taught widely, both abroad and in the United States, and published over fifty books. He has written critical and autobiographical texts, travel reports, fiction and poetry, and studies in the operation of ideas. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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