Description: Cultural visions of sleep circulate through such diverse forms as mattress ads, billboards, comic books, memoirs, experimental poetry, and bedtime story phone apps. Guiding us through the imaginative landscape of slumber, Restless in Sleep Country illuminates the figure of sleep as a site of inequity, struggle, and gratification.
Brief description: Paul Huebener is professor of English at Athabasca University and the author of Timing Canada: The Shifting Politics of Time in Canadian Literary Culture..
Review Quotes: "Restless in Sleep Country exemplifies 'the importance of the humanities in investigating concerns that are usually assumed to belong to the realms of science, technology, and consumer capitalism.' Huebener shows how sleep is not just a biological process, but a space from which we negotiate our use of time, the value of our rest, and the social conditions that impact these rights." Montreal Review of Books