If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?

If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?
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Publisher : Vintage Canada
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9780307368690
ISBN-13 : 0307368696
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Book Synopsis If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? by : J. Edward Chamberlin

Download or read book If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? written by J. Edward Chamberlin and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-05-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 Chatwin, this vital, engrossing book offers a new way to understand the hold that stories and songs have on us, and a new sense of the urgency of doing so. Drawing on his own experience in many fields—as scholar and storyteller, witness among native peoples and across cultures—Ted Chamberlin takes us on a journey through the tales of different peoples, from North America to Africa and Jamaica. Beautifully written, with insight and deep understanding, If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? examines why it is now more important than ever to attend to what others are saying in their stories and myths—and what we are saying about ourselves. Only then will we understand why they have such power over us.


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