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Ladataan... Secret PathTekijä: Gord Downie, Jeff Lemire (Kuvittaja)
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. A heartbreaking story brought to life by Lemire's washed out watercolor palette and Downie's rough plaintive wails. ( ) I've been mostly avoiding the last few things Gord did because it's just so sad. I only just picked up the newspaper article that has been sitting on my desk for (2?) years, the New York Times review of the final Hip concert. It was enough to make me finally purchase the album Secret Path, and Introduce Yerself (which came out right after he died). I had been aware of all this work and in fact, it was learning about Secret Path which brought me to Jeff Lemire and I've since read an absolute ton of his work. Lemire was the perfect creative partner for Gord, they both channel aspects of Canada's real stories and history in their work, and Lemire shows us vulnerable and brave people in an absolutely gut-wrenching manner. This is a short book, but I teared up reading it. I still have to listen to the album, watch the film of Secret Path, watch the final Hip concert, watch the Secret Path concert, watch the Secret Path documentary. Secret Path is a horrific story about a the residential school system, a national shame that still needs much more public attention and action. The book itself is done delicately and sensitively, with beautiful watercolour images and of course Gord Downie's words. This book is quiet and understated, and as a result, there is a lot that is implied or left unsaid. For that reason (and because I think it's crucially important to listen to people personally affected by things), I'd recommend reading this with alongside an indigenous-authored book about the residential school system. I read this around the same time as [book:Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History|19321954], which I think provided more historical and cultural information Secret Path and made the book that much more devastating. My blog post about this book is at this link. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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Secret Path is a ten song digital download album by Gord Downie with a graphic novel by illustrator Jeff Lemire that tells the story of Chanie "Charlie" Wenjack, a twelve-year-old boy who died in flight from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School fifty years ago. Chanie, misnamed Charlie by his teachers, was a young boy who died on October 22, 1966, walking the railroad tracks, trying to escape from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School to return home. Chanie's home was 400 miles away. He didn't know that. He didn't know where it was, nor how to find it, but, like so many kids--more than anyone will be able to imagine--he tried. Chanie's story is Canada's story. We are not the country we thought we were. History will be re-written. We are all accountable. Secret Path acknowledges a dark part of Canada's history--the long suppressed mistreatment of Indigenous children and families by the residential school system--with the hope of starting our country on a road to reconciliation. Every year as we remember Chanie Wenjack, the hope for Secret Path is that it educates all Canadians young and old on this omitted part of our history, urging our entire nation to play an active role in the preservation of Indigenous lives and culture in Canada. The next hundred years are going to be painful as we come to know Chanie Wenjack and thousands like him--as we find out about ourselves, about all of us--but only when we do can we truly call ourselves, "Canada." Proceeds from Secret Path will be donated to The Gord Downie Secret Path Fund for Truth and Reconciliation via The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) at The University of Manitoba. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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