Laughing with the Trickster : on sex, death, and accordions / Tomson Highway.
"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, to laugh ourselves to death. Ever the trickster, 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 how they have given form and substance to Western thought, life, and culture. Yet Indigenous mythologies provide unique, timeless solutions to our modern problems. Tomson Highway offers generous personal anecdotes, including of his beloved accordion-playing father, and plentiful Trickster stories as guides through such crises as climate change, economic disparity, racial intolerance, and all-out unhappiness. Laughter is medicine. Within the endless circle of life in Indigenous mythologies, the Earth is a garden of joy unlimited. A world we must protect as the birthright of future generations. Laugh with the legendary Tomson Highway as he illuminates a healing, hilarious way forward."-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781487011239 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 188 pages : 21 cm
- Publisher: [Toronto, Ontario] : Anansi, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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Subject: | Tricksters. Wit and humor. Mythology. |
Genre: | Memoir/Autobiography |
Topic Heading: | Indigenous. First Nations Canada. |
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