A senior Canadian diplomat is viciously assaulted in his hotel room in South Africa. His world collapses in post-traumatic shock and he is haunted by flashback images of the discrimination he and his family endured when they moved to a small community in central Ontario immediately following World War Two. To exorcise these ghosts, he returns to the past to relive his childhood and youth. In the ensuing memoir, he describes the colorful personalities of a small northern community in which individuals, Indian and white, are larger than life, and in which race relations reflect the unenlightened attitudes of the times.
Throughout Out Of Muskoka Jim Bartleman contrasts the universal existential conditions he faced as a child (discrimination, poverty, suicide, religious quest) with what he experienced as a diplomat serving in five continents over 35 years. In the process, he discovered that to feel whole, he had to feel accepted by the two worlds of his ancestry: Native and white.
Categories:
- History
- Indigenous
Publisher : Penumbra Press
Author : Bartleman, James
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :2004-01-30
Number Of Pages : 144
Binding : hardcover
ISBN-10 : 1894131312
ISBN-13 : 9781894131315
Item weight : 1.05 lb
Dimensions : 0.9 in x 5.8 in x 8.7 in
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