Description:
Echoing her trailblazing grandmother's 1939 Governor General's Award-winning memoir, Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter, Salverson confronts the notebooks of her late father, beloved CBC scriptwriter and drama editor George Salverson, and his 1963 around the world trip to document world hunger in her fascinating new book.
Brief description:
Julie Salverson is a nonfiction writer, playwright, editor, scholar and theatre animator. She is a fourth-generation Icelandic Canadian writer: her father George wrote early CBC radio and television drama and her grandmother Laura won two Governor General Awards (1937,1939). Julie's theatre, opera, books and essays embrace the relationship of imagination and foolish witness to risky stories and trauma. She works on atomic culture, community-engaged theatre and the place of the foolish witness in social, political and inter-personal generative relationships. Salverson offers resiliency and peer-support workshops to communities dealing with trauma and has many years of experience teaching and running workshops. Recent publications include the book When Words Sing: Seven Canadian Libretti (Playwrights Canada Press, 2021) and Lines of Flight: An Atomic Memoir (Wolsak & Wynn, 2016).
Review Quotes:
"[Salverson] advances an original and nuanced perspective, inviting her audience along on her investigative journey into the protracted and prolonged violence enacted on the Northwest Territories' Dene people of Déline [. . .] All the while, Salverson ruminates openly on what it means to bear witness to environmental injustice, violence, and trauma, and affords her audience insight into the process of unearthing embodied knowledge in the name of ethically rendering testimony and confronting grief."
-- "The Goose on Lines of Flight"