Noopiming : the cure for White ladies /
In fierce prose and poetic fragments, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's 'Noopiming' braids together humor, piercing detail and a deep, abiding commitment to Anishinaabe life to tell stories of resistance, love and joy. Mashkawaji (they/them) lies frozen in the ice, remembering the sharpne...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First University of Minnesota Press edition. |
| Series: | Indigenous Americas.
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| Summary: | In fierce prose and poetic fragments, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's 'Noopiming' braids together humor, piercing detail and a deep, abiding commitment to Anishinaabe life to tell stories of resistance, love and joy. Mashkawaji (they/them) lies frozen in the ice, remembering the sharpness of unmuted feeling from long ago, finding freedom and solace in isolated suspension. They introduce the seven characters, Akiwenzii, the old man who represents the narrator's will, Ninaatig, the maple tree who represents their lungs, Mindimooyenh, the old woman, their conscience, Sabe, a gentle giant, their marrow, Adik, the caribou, their nervous system and Asin and Lucy, the humans who represent their eyes, ears and brain. Simpson's book 'As We Have Always Done' argued for the central place of storytelling in imagining radical futures. 'Noopiming' (Anishinaabemowin for 'in the bush') enacts these ideas. The novel's characters emerge from deep within Abinhinaabeg thought to commune beyond an unnatural urban-settler world littered with SpongeBob Band-Aids, Ziploc baggies and Fjällräven Kånken backpacks. Noopiming offers a breaking open of the self to a world alive with people, animals, ancestors and spirits and the daily work of healing. |
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| Physical Description: | 354 pages ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781517911256 1517911257 9781517911263 1517911265 |