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Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions

Tomson Highway

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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 lunatic. Here to remind us that the reason for existence is to have one blast of a time and to laugh ourselves to death.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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions. To get started finding Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 200

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: House of Anansi Press

Release: 2022

ISBN: 1487011237

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 lunatic. Here to remind us that the reason for existence is to have one blast of a time and to laugh ourselves to death.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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions. To get started finding Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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