All The Waking Hours

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Essays

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Part cultural critique of why we bother or don’t bother or are bothered, and part memoir that flies in the face of boredom, for readers of Jenny Odell, Moyra Davey, Tressie McMillan Cottom, and Deborah Levy. Boredom and bother are uncanny twins, two points on a continuum of what it is to be a human in the late stages of capitalism. Erin Wunker asks how boredom changes as we age, what moves us from inertia to action, and how being a woman in middle age might require magical thinking. Memories of unbelonging are given meaning when held alongside the fashion statements of iconoclastic women artists. The boredom of childhood summers is held in tension with the tedium of caregiving and intense love for one’s child—and the anxieties and hopes of being alive in a hyper-mediated, always-agitated world. Shifting between autotheory, memoir, literature, and shrewd cultural analysis. the essays in All the Waking Hours eflects on some of what Sianne Ngai might call “ugly feelings” in hopes of finding—amidst a heap of boredom, bother, concern, and care—a way to build a life of sustained curiosity.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-10-29
Mått139 x 215 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor162
FörlagAssembly Press
ISBN9781998336333

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Erin Wunker teaches, researches, and writes in Mi’kma’ki where she is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University. She is the author of Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life (Book*hug, 2016) and The Routledge Introduction to 20th and 21st Century Canadian Poetry (Routledge, 2022). She is also the co-editor of Avant Desire: A Nicole Brossard Reader (Coach House, 2020), with Sina Queyras and Geneviéve Robichaud; Public Poetics: Critical Issues in Contemporary Canadian Poetry and Poetics (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2015), with Bart Vautour, Travis Mason, and Christl Verduyn; and Refuse: CanLit in Ruins (Book*hug, 2018), with Hannah McGregor and Julie Rak.

Praise for Erin Wunker's previous work"The spiritual successor to Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me. The essays are air-tight, intertwining traces of memory and theory, the best kind of non-fiction."—Large Hearted Boy"We live in dangerous times, where hard-won human rights and freedoms are in danger of being lost. Wunker’s book is a reminder that those on the frontlines of culture and language are doing brave and necessary work.”—Kerry Lee Powell for Writers’ Trust of Canada’s 2016’s Best Books of the Year"A powerful plea for a feminism that is willing to kill any joy that derives from inequality and injustice. All feminist killjoys will want this book on their shelves!”—Sara Ahmed"An honest, personal feminist work essential to this moment, when reminders of why we need feminism are all around us.”—Vagabond City