These Are Our Demands by Matthew PittCall Number: PS3616.I887 T54 2017
ISBN: 9781938126376
Publication Date: 2017
Description: The characters in These Are Our Demands grasp at chances forever bobbing away. Their lack of power may be due to language or cultural carriers, racial or age discrimination, or because they hail from parts of the country where merely getting by passes for rousing success. These twelve narratives range in aesthetic from tidy realism to a more slanted, fabulist bent, and are concerned with the contours of where our culture is headed—whether that means colonizing the moon because of a tourist scheme gone awry, or an abandoned town populated by blind bluesmen, faithfully awaiting their lovers’ return. Through subversive satire, this collection explores ways in which consignment to the margins opens up a kind of wilderness beyond the borders of polite society.
Author: Matthew Pitt, Associate Professor, English