ProleArts Summer Workshop

Posted by Andrea on 25 July 2012 · Leave a Comment 

Announcing the first ProleArts workshop this summer! Proletarian Literature & Arts: Learning, Teaching, and Creating at the University and in the Community. This one-day workshop will be held on Friday, August 31 in the Humanities Centre at the University of Alberta. We are interested in bringing together a group of researchers, community educators, labour activists, … Continue reading →

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Union & Labour Songs

Posted by David Cowley on 3 March 2012 · 1 Comment 

One of the reasons it’s taken me so long to get through the first two books of Dos Passos’ U.S.A. Trilogy is because each is highly allusive.  It braids a variety of forms into the text such as headlines, fragmented news articles, autobiographical stream-of-consciousness sketches, and several narratives ‘proper’.  Still, one more textualized medium is the song, … Continue reading →

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