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Telling Our Stories
- Jim Betts (Author)
Colours in the Storm. Playwrights Canada Press - J. Edward Chamberlin (Author)
If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? Finding Common Ground. Knopf Canada - Rudy Wiebe (Author)
Playing Dead: A Contemplation Concerning the Arctic. NeWest Press
Reviewed by Sherrill Grace
The question that Ted Chamberlain chooses for the title of his book is one that all three of these books address. The general point, as Chamberlain insists, is that our common ground as human beings, regardless of time or place, is story: nothing is more human than the desire to tell and the need to listen to stories. But that common starting point has always led to a range of persistent problems. Lack of knowledge, a basic refusal to listen, a competition as to whose story becomes the off […more…]