Reconciliation

As the Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2020, Canada will present a programme this year that reflects the diversity of the local cultural scene. We have invited 20 authors to write new and original comics and illustrated stories in German, English, French and Indigenous languages on a term that evokes very different associations and emotions in the two countries: RECONCILIATION.

Reconciliation in Canada and Germany
Reconciling with the Past

As both Canadians and Germans will acknowledge, reconciliation has come to mean a variety of things, considering the tragic histories of both countries. In this commentary, author Waubgeshig Rice reflects on Canada's more recent actions towards reconciliation with Indigenous peoples and on his time in Germany.

Making the Invisible Visible
How graphic novels can contribute to the reconciliation process

Reconciliation describes a complex concept of dealing constructively with conflicts and traumatic experiences. Comic narratives, as many authors in the history of the art form have demonstrated, can contribute to this way of grappling with the past.

Graphic novels in Canada
The two solitudes of the “ninth Canadian art”

Canada is a linguistically divided country where the term “two solitudes” perfectly applies to graphic novels. Author Michel Viau attempts a historical classification of a lively art market.

Video
Reconciliation - Roundtable

See here the video of the discussion that Catherine Emmanuel Brunet had with Burcu Türker, Julien Dallaire Charest, and Whess Harman.

Due to a technical issue the participants' cameras where activated only 15 minutes into the exchange.