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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Reminiscences of encounters and painting trips to native villages in British Columbia during the early 20thC, with a surprisingly modern perspective on indigenous cultures. Interesting to contrast with Francis Poole's account, a generation earlier, of colonists' exploration for mineral resources on the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii), which introduced smallpox and praised the benefits of missionaries for First Nations populations up and down the coast. Carr's own criticisms of missionaries were expurgated from the first editions of this book. ( ) This book is composed of short chapters written by Emliy Carr of her efforts to sketch and paint the totem poles found on the Queen Charlotte Islands. She is a brave and adventurous young woman who travels alone with her dog to these remote locations by hitching a ride by canoe or wagon to isolated native villages. She writes beautifully and describes so well the wild nature and elements of the villages. Her prose captures the dampness of the rain forests and the abundance of growth and greenery. Her descriptions of the totems is revealing. She has an interesting perspective on missionaries and the RCMP. She easily developed a rapport with the natives because of her innocence and her curiosity. I enjoyed this story very much. I will read more about this overlooked and talented Canadian artist. I loved this book. I don't say that very often but this is an exceptional book. In the forword Ira Dilworth talks about Carr's writing process: I have seen her "peeling" a sentence, as she called it,--a process which involved stripping away all ambiguous or unnecessary words, replacing a vague word by a sharper, clearer one until the sentence emerged clean and precise in its meaning and strong in its impact on the reader. As a result, there is in her writing the quality of immediacy, the ability, by means of descriptive words chosen with the greatest accuracy, to carry the reader into the very heart of the experience she is describing, whether it be an incident from her own childhood or a sketch of an Indian and his village--and that so swiftly as to give an impression almost of magic, of incatation. I did feel carried into the places she described and I felt like I knew the people she met. I think the story that had the most strong effect on me was "Sophie". Sophie was a woman who came by Carr's studio in Vancouver to sell her baskets. Carr didn't have any money to pay her but Sophie told her she would take some old clothes. Sophie left the basket she wanted even though Carr said she would have to go back to Victoria to get the clothes and that wouldn't be for some time. Sophie told her she lived in the North Vancouver Mission and that anyone there would know her. Some time later Carr took the clothes over to Sophie and they became friends. One of the first things Sophie did was take Carr to the cemetary where her children were buried. Almost every year Sophie had a baby and almost every year she buried a child. Sophie had twenty-one children in all and none of them survived her. I think this story speaks volumes about the kind of person Emily Carr was. She could be good friends with an illiterate woman who had nothing, not even the children she bore. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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The legendary Emily Carr was primarily a painter, but she first gained recognition as a writer. Her first book, published in 1941, was titled Klee Wyck ("Laughing One"), in honour of the name that the Native people fo the west coast gave her as an intrepid young woman. The book was a hit with both critics and the public, won the prestigious Governor Generals' Award and has been in print ever since. Emily Carr wrote these twenty-one word sketches after visiting and living with Native people, painting their totem poles and villages, many of them in wild and remote areas. She tells her stories with beauty, pathos and a vivid awareness of the comedy of people and situations. A few years after Carr's death, signifcant deletions were made to her book for an educational edition. This new, beautifully designed keepsake volume restores Klee Wyck to its original published verison, making the complete work available for th e first tim in more than fifty years. In her intriguing introduction, archivist and writer Kathryn Bridge puts Klee Wyck into the context of Emily Carr's life and reveals the story behind the expurgations. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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