Was L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz an allegory describing William Jennings Bryan and the Free Silver Movement? The argument hinges on the fact that in the book, Dorothy’s slippers are silver, not ruby.
Darren Wershler (aka Darren Wershler-Henry) is the Concordia University Research Chair in Media and Contemporary Literature (Tier 2). He works with the Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) group, and is also part of the faculty at the CFC Media Lab TELUS Interactive Art & Entertainment Program. Darren is the author or co-author of 12 books, most recently, Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg (U of Toronto Press), and Update (Snare), with Bill Kennedy.
"lenguage is, that we may mis-unda-stend each udda." — Krazy Kat, 1918