Collected here for the first time in book form are the expurgated sections of artist, writer, and rebel Emily Carr's unpublished journals, her important "Lecture on Totems" about Native art and people, and letters to and from several key figures in her life. The unpublished journal entries include long passages about her first meeting with Sophie Frank, a Squamish basket maker who became a confidante; anguished meditations on her spiritual mission; musings about Native culture and the white community's reaction to it; and thoughts about her sisters and relatives. This collection also features commentary by noted literary historian Susan Crean that offers cultural and historical context.
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42,000 words from Carr's previously published journals,
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This review is from: Opposite Contraries: The Unknown Journals of Emily Carr and Other Writings (Hardcover)
Award-winning author and cultural critic Susan Crean gathers previously unpublished writings from Emily Carr's journals, notebooks, and epistles, as well as 42,000 words from Carr's previously published journals for inclusion into Opposite Contraries: The Unknown Journals Of Emily Carr And Other Writings. An absorbing and eclectic collection of discourse, the entries range from Carr's father's no-nonsense rendition of the facts of life, to the complete text of Carr's 1913 "Lecture on Totems" concerning Native imagery and Native people, Opposite Contraries is highly recommended -- especially for students of the life and work of Emily Carr, who although best known as an extraordinary painter, was also the author of seven quite popular and critically praised books.
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The expurgated portions of the journals Emily Carr fall into two categories: one comprises passages, sometimes entire entries, left out of Hundreds and Thousands, and the other comprises a handful of short stories that are in the notebooks in which Carr kept her journals but are plainly not part of them. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
opposite contraries Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, British Columbia, Sophie Frank, Garland Anderson, Raja Singh, Ira Dilworth, Clem Davies, North Vancouver, Uncle Raja, Alert Bay, The Book of Small, Cow Yard, Lee Nan, Lola Dawn, Martha's Joey, Miss Missionary, Beckley Street, Growing Pains, Skidegate Inlet, Walt Whitman, Wharf Street, Hudson's Bay, Pop Shop New!
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The expurgated portions of the journals Emily Carr fall into two categories: one comprises passages, sometimes entire entries, left out of Hundreds and Thousands, and the other comprises a handful of short stories that are in the notebooks in which Carr kept her journals but are plainly not part of them. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
opposite contraries Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, British Columbia, Sophie Frank, Garland Anderson, Raja Singh, Ira Dilworth, Clem Davies, North Vancouver, Uncle Raja, Alert Bay, The Book of Small, Cow Yard, Lee Nan, Lola Dawn, Martha's Joey, Miss Missionary, Beckley Street, Growing Pains, Skidegate Inlet, Walt Whitman, Wharf Street, Hudson's Bay, Pop Shop New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Klee Wyck by Emily Carr on 12 pages
- The Book of Small by Emily Carr on page 17, page 218, and Back Matter
- Emily Carr by Ian M. Thom in Front Matter, page 170, and page 171
- Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr by Emily Carr on page 17, and Back Matter
- The House of All Sorts by Emily Carr in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Corresponding Influence: Selected Letters of Emily Carr and Ira Dilworth by Linda Morra on page 151, and Back Matter
- Klee Wyck by Emily Carr in Front Matter
- Klee Wyck by Emily Carr in Front Matter
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