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Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. In the tradition of Borges, Nabakov, and Bolano, THE RED ALBUM is a work of fiction that questions historical authenticity and authority. Divided into two parts, the book begins with an edited and footnoted narrative of dubious origins. In the second part, a section of "documents" (including essays, memoirs, a short play and a filmography) shed light on the first narrative. Familiar characters are revealed to be writers, and the writer and editors of the initial narrative are revealed to be characters. As the ghosts of social revolutions of the past are lifted from the soil in Catalonia, and a new revolution unfolds in South America, the number of mysteriously missing author/characters grows almost as fast as new author/characters emerge and complicate and scatter the threads of the story.
About the author
STEPHEN COLLIS is an award-winning poet, activist, and professor of contemporary literature at Simon Fraser University. His poetry books include
Anarchive,
The Commons,
On the Material (awarded the BC Book Prize for Poetry), and
To the Barricades. He has also written two books of criticism, including
Phyllis Webb and the Common Good. His collection of essays on the Occupy movement,
Dispatches from the Occupation, comes out of his activist experiences and is a philosophical meditation on activist tactics, social movements, and change. A Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellow at Simon Fraser University in 2011/12, Collis has read and lectured across Canada, the United States, and Europe.
