Social Science Indigenous Studies
Laughing with the Trickster
On Sex, Death, and Accordions
- Publisher
- House of Anansi Press Inc
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2022
- Category
- Indigenous Studies, Native Americans, Folklore & Mythology
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781487011246
- Publish Date
- Sep 2022
- List Price
- $18.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781487011239
- Publish Date
- Sep 2022
- List Price
- $22.99
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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.
About the author
Tomson Highway
Tomson Highway was born near Maria Lake, Manitoba in 1951. Living a nomadic lifestyle with no access to books, television or radio, Highway’s parents would tell their children stories, kindling Highway’s life-long interest in the oral tradition of storytelling.
Tomson Highway is widely recognized for his tremendous contribution to the development of Aboriginal theatre in both Canada and around the world.
In 1994, he was inducted into the Order of Canada, the first Aboriginal writer to be so honoured.
Other titles by Tomson Highway
My Name Is Seepeetza
30th Anniversary Edition
Permanent Astonishment
Growing Up Cree in the Land of Snow and Sky
Permanent Astonishment (Signed Edition)
A Memoir
Kiss of the Fur Queen
Penguin Modern Classics Edition
Masculindians
Conversations about Indigenous Manhood
Dragonfly Kites
From Oral to Written
A Celebration of Indigenous Literature in Canada, 1980–2010
The Incredible Adventures of Mary Jane Mosquito
Caribou Song
A Tale of Monstrous Extravagance
Imagining Multilingualism