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 is an exceptional book - insightful, original, entertaining, thought-provoking, and refreshing! Huebener takes the reader inside the world of sleep treatments and sleep therapy while also deconstructing the neoliberal advertising rhetoric that goes into marketing these things. This is a gently written yet hard-hitting study. I will never think of sleep in the same way." Cynthia Sugars, University of Ottawa