The Best of Funny, You Don't Look Like One
- Publisher
- Theytus Books
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2015
- Category
- Essays, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Native Americans
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781926886336
- Publish Date
- Dec 2015
- List Price
- $22.95
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Description
“Drew Hayden Taylor is one of those dangerous writers who knows the potential of humour, and how far it can reach into society, how deep it can cut, how quickly it can heal.” —Thomas King, author of The Back of the Turtle
The Best of Funny, You Don't Look Like One is a collection of the author's handpicked favorites from the popular first three collections of stories about the clashes between Native life and those he calls the 'Colour-Challenged, Pigment-Denied People of the Pallor.' With laid-back humour, he addresses serious issues with a sensitivity that pokes holes in the stereotypes both Natives and non-Natives have of each other and themselves.
About the author
Ojibway writer Drew Hayden Taylor is from the Curve Lake Reserve in Ontario. Hailed by the Montreal Gazette as one of Canada’s leading Native dramatists, he writes for the screen as well as the stage and contributes regularly to North American Native periodicals and national NEWSpapers. His plays have garnered many prestigious awards, and his beguiling and perceptive storytelling style has enthralled audiences in Canada, the United States and Germany. His 1998 play Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth has been anthologized in Seventh Generation: An Anthology of Native American Plays, published by the Theatre Communications Group. Although based in Toronto, Taylor has travelled extensively throughout North America, honouring requests to read from his work and to attend arts festivals, workshops and productions of his plays. He was also invited to Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute in California, where he taught a series of seminars on the depiction of Native characters in fiction, drama and film. One of his most established bodies of work includes what he calls the Blues Quartet, an ongoing, outrageous and often farcical examination of Native and non-Native stereotypes.
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