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Laughing With the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions (The cbc Massey Lectures)
Tomson Highway
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House of Anansi Press
· Paperback
Laughing With the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions (The cbc Massey Lectures) - Highway, Tomson
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Synopsis "Laughing With the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions (The cbc Massey Lectures)"
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.
