Product Description
Inspired by the contemporary theories of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, GULCH: An Assemblage of Poetry and Prose is a rhizomatic exploration of the modern Canadian literary community. Drawing on the postmodern themes of detachment and disjuncture, GULCH seeks to create an optimistic snapshot of the pluralities and complexities that constitute the post-pomo literary landscape. Focusing on the theme of fragmentation, Steel Bananas members Sarah Beaudin, Karen Correia Da Silva and Curran Folkers have collected pieces from community artists, Professors, lit students, burgeoning young talent as well as established writers in order to compile a collection that resists the notion of wholeness, privileging instead the multiplicity and diversity found in contemporary globalized culture. This assemblage of poetry and prose bares the innovation and cultural critique of post-millennium Canadian writers, and seeks to expose the beauty of discontinuity.
About the Author
Karen is an artist and creative writer currently finishing up her Specialized Honours B.A. in English Literature at York University. Her interests include postmodern fiction, experimental poetry, conceptual writing, post-postmodernism, cultural theory and multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary art. She is in the process of writing her Honours thesis on late nineties postmodern Canadian literature under the mentorship of Professor Stephen Cain. In August of 2008 she founded Steel Bananas, an online arts and culture zine dedicated to publishing young, creative, critical Canadian perspectives on the arts and modern urban culture.
