Grace Campbell (1895–1963)
Autore di Highland Heritage
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Grace Maclennan Grant Campbell
Opere di Grace Campbell
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1895
- Data di morte
- 1963-05-31
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Canada
- Luogo di nascita
- Williamstown, Ontario, Canada
- Luogo di morte
- Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada
- Istruzione
- Williamstown High School
Queen's University - Attività lavorative
- novelist
- Organizzazioni
- Canadian Authors Association
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 13
- Utenti
- 57
- Popolarità
- #287,973
- Voto
- 3.0
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 40
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The disturbing element was the treatment of a First Nations woman who comes on the scene, and to a lesser extent a later scene with First Nations people. Campbell writes sympathetically about them, as best she can, and writes into her story people who disparage “Indians“ and people who befriend them. Nevertheless, the racism of the time, combined with the sexism, as well as the author’s own unaware racism come together to see a woman badly treated by a man who has previously lived with her in a sexual relationship and secondarily poorly treated by our protagonists. It was completely believable, their treatment of her, but Campbell was incapable of avoiding describing her in some ways that seemed to justify the community’s non-acceptance of her.}}
Deeply unpleasant as this Interlude was, it does offer insight into that community, and so is not completely out of place in this book. I greatly regret the section, though, because without it I would wholeheartedly endorse this book. Even with it, it is worth the read.
On a sidenote, the book was designed and the woodcuts created by Franklin Carmichael, one of a famous Canadian collection of artists, the Group of Seven.… (altro)