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Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions
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Series: CBC Massey Lectures
Biographies GeneralMythology & FolkloreIndigenous Studies
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ISBN13: 9781487011239
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Published: Sep 27 2022
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.60 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Brilliant, jubilant insights into the glory and anguish of life from one of the world's most treasured Indigenous creators.
Trickster is zany, ridiculous. The ultimate, over-the-top, madcap fool. Here to remind us that the reason for existence is to have a blast and to laugh ourselves silly.
Celebrated author and playwright Tomson Highway brings his signature irreverence to an exploration of five themes central to the human condition: language, creation, sex and gender, humour, and death. A comparative analysis of Christian, classical, and Cree mythologies reveals their contributions to Western thought, life, and culture--and how North American Indigenous mythologies provide unique, timeless solutions to our modern problems. Highway also offers generous personal anecdotes, including accounts of his beloved accordion-playing, caribou-hunting father, and plentiful Trickster stories as curatives for the all-out unhappiness caused by today's patriarchal, colonial systems.
Laugh with the legendary Tomson Highway as he illuminates a healing, hilarious way forward.
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