Whispering in Shadows – Jeannette Armstrong
Whispering in Shadows – Jeannette Armstrong – 2000
Reviewed by: Dr.N.S.Dharan Date: 19 January 2004
I read the book first for my doctoral thesis. That reading, needless to say was merely utilitarian. When I got back to it again, I found it to be a significantly topical novel.
It is relevant to the kind of life that human beings all over the world live today. Nuclear families, ruinous distractions from a mechanical and materialitic life, and ,above all, humanity’s callous indifferene to Nature.
I just cannot erase scene where Penny, the protagonist, stands close to an ancient tree and shedding tears thinking of the ruthless slaughter that it is to face the next day.
The narrative does call for careful and attentive reading. No part of the novel can be called redundant. It is a must for those who like me stand firm against Globalisation and its collateral rapacity.
Read and join the forces that oppose human’s inhumanity!!!
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Reviewed by: Jane Haladay Date: 18 September 2003
“Whispering in Shadows” is a powerful and vibrant depiction of one First Nation woman’s development as an artist, an activist, a single mother, and a person. Author Jeannette C. Armstrong, an Okanagan woman from British Columbia, employs a diverse narrative strategy including poetry, journal fragments, letters, first and third person prose narrative, and Coyote story moments from traditional Okanagan tales to create a layered and absorbing story that at once critiques imperial globalization, and honors the impulses of those — both Native and non — who fight for the protection of sacred earth places and the cultures who live in them.
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Reviewed by: Brent Allen Date: 3 March 2003
Terrible….. that’s it. No flow, no heart, yuck.
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