Little Reckonings in Great Rooms
2005; University of Toronto Press; Volume: 121; Linguagem: Inglês
10.3138/ctr.121.003
ISSN1920-941X
Autores Tópico(s)Travel Writing and Literature
ResumoIn her review of Sasha Cagen’s Quirkyalone: A Manifestofor Uncompromising Romantics for the Toronto Star, poet, novelist and cultural journalist Lynn Crosbie concludes that reading Cagen’s textbook for ind ependent and “cheerful oddballs” is “a slightly creep y experience, comparable to pouring over the folkwa ys of Klingons” (D12). This apparently peculiar connection seems to represent a broader consensu s regarding the activities of not only those who identify as Klingons, but those who move in the same world as them. For example, Crosbie’s glib depiction shares many similarities with the approach director Roger Nygard takes in his 1997 documentary Trekkies, in which a procession of quirky and cheerful “oddballs” enthusiastically expound on their devotion to Star Trek. Where Crosbie obviously intends to be derogatory, however, Nygard aims to foreground the notion that Trekkies are comfortable with, and even proud of, their oddball status. 1 despite a lack of understanding, or even contempt, from “mundanes.” 2
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