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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Laughing with the Trickster
    sub title: on sex, death, and accordions
  name:
    name part: Highway, Tomson
    name part: 1951-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 188 pages ; 21 cm.
  abstract: 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, humor,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.
  note: Tomson Highway.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-186).
  subject:
    topic: Tricksters
  subject:
    topic: Wit and humor
  subject:
    topic: Mythology
  classification: GR524 .H54 2022
  classification: 398/.45
  related item:
    title info:
      title: CBC Massey lectures
  identifier: 1487011237
  identifier: 9781487011239
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 220322
    record change date: 20230123165405.6
    record identifier: in00004599853
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng