Bawaajigan : stories of power
Dreams play a powerful role in Indigenous culture, serving as warning, insight, guidance, solace, or hope. Bawaajigan – an Anishinaabemowin word for dream or vision – is a collection of powerful literary short fiction by Indigenous writers from across Turtle Island. Stories about the connection between the spirit world and everyday life and the rest of the cosmos; urban-fantasy and high-fantasy worlds; alternative histories, and alternative realities; brushes with the supernatural, the prophetic, the hallucinatory, and the surreal. Among these themes we find stories ranging from the gritty, the gothic, the comedic, and the heart-wrenchingly tragic: a tale about the state of sleep-deprivation that conjures an uncertainty as to where dream ends and reality begins; the ominous tension of television static that conjures a certainty of something terrible about to happen; encounters with spirit guides, and spirit enemies; confrontations with ghosts haunting residential school hallways, and ghosts looking on from the afterlife; and with concepts based on Ouija boards, bead-dreamers, Haudenosaunee wizards, talking eagles, giant snakes, sacred white buffalo calves, spider’s silk, a burnt and blood-stained diary, longings for what could-have-been, worm holes fallen through reality, poppy-induced deliriums, imaginary friends, and knowledge revealed. Unifying everything: these are stories about the strength and power of dreams.
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- ISBN: 9781550968415
- ISBN: 1550968416
- Physical Description 254 pages ; 22 cm.
- Publisher Holstein, Ontario : Exile Editions, 2019.
Content descriptions
General Note: | NFPL Indigenous Collection. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Ipapaino : White Buffalo Womyn [woman] / Katie-Jo Rabbit -- Bead dreamer / Autumn Bernhardt -- Flight / Brittany Johnson -- Truth between us / Richard van Camp -- How Mosquito got his name / Gord Grisenthwaite -- Ptarmigan / Joanne Arnott -- Missing / Délani Valin -- Medicine walk / Cathy Smith -- Jumpers on both bridges / David Geary -- Melinda Irene and Madame Bouve / Yugcetun Anderson -- Ghost walk / Gerald Silliker Pisim Maskwa -- Ahnunggokwan / Karen Lee White -- Where they dwell / Sara General -- Silk / Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler -- Death of him came to me in my dreams / Francine Cunningham -- Dream medicine / Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith -- Room was crowded / Lee Maracle -- Sword of antlers / Richard van Camp -- We are the Earth's dreaming / Wendy Bone. |
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505 | 0 | 0. | ‡tIpapaino : White Buffalo Womyn [woman] / ‡rKatie-Jo Rabbit -- ‡tBead dreamer / ‡rAutumn Bernhardt -- ‡tFlight / ‡rBrittany Johnson -- ‡tTruth between us / ‡rRichard van Camp -- ‡tHow Mosquito got his name / ‡rGord Grisenthwaite -- ‡tPtarmigan / ‡rJoanne Arnott -- ‡tMissing / ‡rDélani Valin -- ‡tMedicine walk / ‡rCathy Smith -- ‡tJumpers on both bridges / ‡rDavid Geary -- ‡tMelinda Irene and Madame Bouve / ‡rYugcetun Anderson -- ‡tGhost walk / ‡rGerald Silliker Pisim Maskwa -- ‡tAhnunggokwan / ‡rKaren Lee White -- ‡tWhere they dwell / ‡rSara General -- ‡tSilk / ‡rNathan Niigan Noodin Adler -- ‡tDeath of him came to me in my dreams / Francine Cunningham -- ‡tDream medicine / ‡rChristine Miskonoodinkwe Smith -- ‡tRoom was crowded / ‡rLee Maracle -- ‡tSword of antlers / ‡rRichard van Camp -- ‡tWe are the Earth's dreaming / ‡rWendy Bone. |
520 | . | ‡a"Dreams play a powerful role in Indigenous culture, serving as warning, insight, guidance, solace, or hope. Bawaajigan – an Anishinaabemowin word for dream or vision – is a collection of powerful literary short fiction by Indigenous writers from across Turtle Island. Stories about the connection between the spirit world and everyday life and the rest of the cosmos; urban-fantasy and high-fantasy worlds; alternative histories, and alternative realities; brushes with the supernatural, the prophetic, the hallucinatory, and the surreal. Among these themes we find stories ranging from the gritty, the gothic, the comedic, and the heart-wrenchingly tragic: a tale about the state of sleep-deprivation that conjures an uncertainty as to where dream ends and reality begins; the ominous tension of television static that conjures a certainty of something terrible about to happen; encounters with spirit guides, and spirit enemies; confrontations with ghosts haunting residential school hallways, and ghosts looking on from the afterlife; and with concepts based on Ouija boards, bead-dreamers, Haudenosaunee wizards, talking eagles, giant snakes, sacred white buffalo calves, spider’s silk, a burnt and blood-stained diary, longings for what could-have-been, worm holes fallen through reality, poppy-induced deliriums, imaginary friends, and knowledge revealed. Unifying everything: these are stories about the strength and power of dreams."-- ‡cProvided by publisher. | |
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