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Canadian Literature Winter 2013 Issue 219 p 137-139, 2013
Book Review: Selector of Souls, The. Magic of Saida, The
Papers by Dorothy Lane
Canadian Children S Literature Litterature Canadienne Pour La Jeunesse, Oct 28, 2009
All six of these books-directed at a diverse audience of children, young adults, and educators-at... more All six of these books-directed at a diverse audience of children, young adults, and educators-attempt to make sense of the past, unveil and challenge injustices, frame real-life experience, and describe non-mainstream or non-Canadian cultures; some raise deeper questions related to the meaning and language of suffering. As William Irwin Thompson suggests in Transforming History: A Curriculum for Cultural Evolution, descriptions of the past are reinventions: "Like an image before us in the rearview mirror of a car, the picture of where we have been keeps changing as we move forward in space and time" (1). Moreover, while one of the books was written and published in another country-but has now been translated and distributed for an English-Canadian audience-they all confront the picture of who we are in Canada, and particularly the multicultural vision that adults are eager to idealize. At the same
International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, 2019
This paper summarises recurring elements of contemporary pilgrimage narratives related to South A... more This paper summarises recurring elements of contemporary pilgrimage narratives related to South Asia and their role in neo-colonial 'globalisation.' While sacred sites are visited by both local and international pilgrims, their recreation as story cannot be regarded as innocent, interwoven as it is in historical domination and appropriation. The paper focuses on two contemporary narratives that draw on the motif of odyssey. It explores, in part, the increasing role of social media and technology in the most recent incarnations of the paradigm.
Canadian Literature Winter 2013 Issue 219 p 137-139, 2013
Book Review: Selector of Souls, The. Magic of Saida, The
Canadian Children S Literature Litterature Canadienne Pour La Jeunesse, Oct 28, 2009
All six of these books-directed at a diverse audience of children, young adults, and educators-at... more All six of these books-directed at a diverse audience of children, young adults, and educators-attempt to make sense of the past, unveil and challenge injustices, frame real-life experience, and describe non-mainstream or non-Canadian cultures; some raise deeper questions related to the meaning and language of suffering. As William Irwin Thompson suggests in Transforming History: A Curriculum for Cultural Evolution, descriptions of the past are reinventions: "Like an image before us in the rearview mirror of a car, the picture of where we have been keeps changing as we move forward in space and time" (1). Moreover, while one of the books was written and published in another country-but has now been translated and distributed for an English-Canadian audience-they all confront the picture of who we are in Canada, and particularly the multicultural vision that adults are eager to idealize. At the same
International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, 2019
This paper summarises recurring elements of contemporary pilgrimage narratives related to South A... more This paper summarises recurring elements of contemporary pilgrimage narratives related to South Asia and their role in neo-colonial 'globalisation.' While sacred sites are visited by both local and international pilgrims, their recreation as story cannot be regarded as innocent, interwoven as it is in historical domination and appropriation. The paper focuses on two contemporary narratives that draw on the motif of odyssey. It explores, in part, the increasing role of social media and technology in the most recent incarnations of the paradigm.