Joe Sacco: Paying the Land

 

Alkuteos: Paying the Land (2020)

Ilmestymisaika: 2020 (ko.painos)

Sivumäärä: 264

Kustantaja: Jonathan Cape

ISBN: 9781910702581

Muoto: Sid.

Peukku: q^^

*From the ‘heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman’ (The Economist), a masterly work of comics journalism about indigenous North America, resource extraction and our debt to the natural world.

The Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial, by their account. To the Dene, the land owns them, not the other way around - it is central to their livelihood and their very way of being. But the subarctic Canadian Northwest Territories are also home to valuable natural resources, including oil, gas and diamonds. With mining came jobs and investment - but also road building, pipelines and toxic waste, which scarred the landscape, and alcohol, drugs and debt, which deformed a way of life.

In Paying the Land, Joe Sacco travels the frozen North to reveal a people struggling with the ambiguous wages of development and the incalculable toll of a pitiless colonial legacy. Against a vast and gorgeous landscape that dwarfs all human scale, Paying the Land lends an ear to trappers and chiefs, activists and priests, telling a sweeping story about money, dependency, loss and culture, with stunning visual detail by one of the greatest comics reporters alive.

Joe Sacco is the author of Footnotes in Gaza, for which he received the Ridenhour Book Prize, as well as Palestine, Journalism, Safe Area GoraZde, The Great War and other books. He lives in Portland, Oregon.*

Hienosti kuvitettu teos, joka kertoo monta tarinaa ihmisistä ja elämästä. Keskiössä pohjoisessa Kanadassa elävät ihmiset, joista monella virtaa suonissaan alkuperäisen väestön verta. Sarjakuva on muistelua ja muistoa, tarinoita elävästä elämästä ja ihmisten kohtaloista. Mustavalkoinen kuvitus on tarkkaa ja persoonallista. Ruutujen rajat ovat vain nimellisiä, joten välistä saa lukija olla tarkkana. Tekstiä on myös melkoisesti ja siinä on paljon myös politiikkaa. Ei siis sieltä keveimmästä päästä lukea.