If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?
Finding Common Ground
“We need to understand our stories because our lives depend upon it.” —Ted Chamberlin
The stories we tell each other reflect and shape our deepest feelings. Stories help us live our lives—and are at the heart of our current conflicts. We love and hate because of them; we make homes for ourselves and drive others out on the basis of ancient tales. As Ted Chamberlin vividly reveals, we are both connected by them and separated by their different truths. Whether Jew or Arab, black or white, Muslim or Christian, Catholic or Protestant, man or woman, our stories hold us in thrall and hold others at bay.
Like the work of Joseph Campbell and Bruce…
J. EDWARD CHAMBERLIN’S renowned book If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? Finding Common Ground was a finalist for the Charles Taylor Prize and for the Pearson Writers’ Trust Award. He worked on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry; was Senior Research Associate with the Royal Commissionon Aboriginal Peoples; has worked extensively on Aboriginal land claims in Canada, the United States, South Africa and Australia; and has lectured widely on literary, historical and cultural issues. His other books include The Harrowing of Eden: White Attitudes Towards Native Americans;Come Back To Me My Language: Poetry and the West Indies; and Horse: How the Horse Has Shaped Civilizations. He is University Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, an Officer…
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