Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions - Highway, Tomson

Clean, tight, unmarked; light wear to bottom front corner; otherwise absolute minimal wear; appears unread; In this brilliant, jubilant book, one of the world's most treasured Indigenous creators provides spectacular insights into the glory and anguish of life. 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. An invigorating comparison 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.
Very Good
Soft cover
House of Anansi Press
2022
Canada