Noopiming : the cure for white ladies / Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.
Mashkawaji (they/them) lies frozen in the ice, remembering a long-ago time of hopeless connection and now finding freedom and solace in isolated suspension. They introduce us to the seven main characters: Akiwenzii, the old man who represents the narrator's will; Ninaatig, the maple tree who represents their lungs; Mindimooyenh, the old woman who represents their conscience; Sabe, the giant who represents their marrow; Adik, the caribou who represents their nervous system; Asin, the human who represents their eyes and ears; and Lucy, the human who represents their brain. Each attempts to commune with the unnatural urban-settler world, a world of SpongeBob Band-Aids, Ziploc baggies, Fjällräven Kånken backpacks, and coffee mugs emblazoned with institutional logos. And each searches out the natural world, only to discover those pockets that still exist are owned, contained, counted, and consumed. Cut off from nature, the characters are cut off from their natural selves.
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- ISBN: 9781517911256 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 354 pages ; 23 cm.
- Edition: First University of Minnesota Press edition.
- Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2020
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Subject: | Indigenous peoples > Fiction. |
Genre: | Magic realist fiction. |
Topic Heading: | Indigenous. First Nations Canada. First Nations. |
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Thompson Campus Library | PR 9199 .4 .S5485 N66 2021 (Text) | 58500001102573 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |