About the Author:
Colin Browne: Colin Browne is the author of Abraham (Brick Books, 1987); the critically acclaimed collection of poetryGround Water (Talonbooks, 2002), which was nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award and a Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize; andThe Shovel (Talonbooks, 2007), shortlisted for the 2008 ReLit Award. He was an editor ofWriting magazine and co-founder of the Kootenay School of Writing, the Praxis Centre for Screenwriters, and the Art of Documentary workshops.
Browne’s films include Linton Garner: I Never Said Goodbye (2003), Father and Son (1992) andWhite Lake (1989), which was nominated for a Genie for Best Feature Length Documentary. He is currently working on texts for new operas. His recent work explores the history and legacy of the Surrealist fascination with the art of the Northwest Coast and Alaska, and includes the essay Scavengers of Paradise.” Browne has recently retired from teaching production, screenwriting, and film history at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts.
Neil Campbell: Neil Campbell is a contemporary artist who grew up as a third-generation Irish-Canadian on a Saskatchewan farm. He lives in Vancouver.
Review:
“[Browne] is to be congratulated on treating Edenshaw’s work not as a separate ‘ethnographic’ art but as modernist hybrid work that mirrored what was going on in the Haida world in late nineteenth and early twentieth century B.C. Browne’s detailed discussion of Charles Edenshaw’s platters – and the political, social, and economic environment in which that creation took place – is informed by his dependence on the knowledge and insight of contemporary Haida scholars and artists and also by his extensive reference to academic discussion. ... A delight to read and an accessible and lively introduction to the twists and turns of Haida mythology.”
―The Ormsby Review
“Colin Browne provides a thoughtful, provocative analysis of Charles Edenshaw’s depictions of Raven’s journey to help fulfill women, and in doing so, contemplates humanity’s existence.”
―Gid7ahl-Gudsllaay, Lalaxaaygans, Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson
“With a passion that is contagious, Colin Browne leads readers across the realms of epic poem, oral narrative, science, art, and detective story as he pursues Raven and his helmsman – the mysterious Fungus Man – on an enthralling journey into time and history.”―Karen Duffek, co-author of The Transforming Image
“Entering Time explores family, crucial episodes in the development of art, the brutalities of colonial history, the origins of gender, and the creative cunning of Raven. Colin Browne finds in Fungus Man the spirit of resistance. This was vital to the Haida; nothing could now be more important to all of us.”―Hugh Brody, author of Maps and Dream
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