Description
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.
Author: Tomson Highway
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Published: 09/27/2022
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781487011239
ISBN10: 1487011237
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Indigenous Studies
- Social Science | Folklore & Mythology
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | Indigenous