| Description |
xiii, 254 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
The Exile book of anthology series ; number eighteen |
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Exile book of anthology series (Exile editions Ltd.) ; no. 18.
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| Summary |
"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."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Form |
Issued also in electronic format. |
| Contents |
Ipapaino : White Buffalo Woman / Katie-Jo Rabbit -- Bead dreamer / Autumn Bernhardt -- Flight / Brittany Johnson -- The truth between us / Richard van Camp -- How Mosquito got his name / Gord Grisenthwaite -- Ptarmigan / Joanne Arnott -- Missing / Delani 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 -- The death of him came to me in my dreams / Francine Cunningham -- Dream medicine / Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith -- The room was crowded / Lee Maracle -- Sword of antlers / Richard van Camp -- We are the Earth's dreaming / Wendy Bone. |
| Subject |
Dreams -- Fiction.
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Canadian literature -- Indian authors.
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American literature -- Indian authors.
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Short stories.
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American literature -- Indian authors
(OCoLC)fst00807179
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Canadian literature -- Indian authors
(OCoLC)fst00845127
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Dreams (OCoLC)fst01198490
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Short stories (OCoLC)fst01117043
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories (OCoLC)fst01726740
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Fiction (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Short stories.
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Short stories.
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| Added Author |
Adler, Nathan Niigan Noodin, editor.
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Smith, Christine Miskonoodinkwe, 1973- editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjwGbjtRYRJVygypQK4ykC
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Bawaajigan. Holstein, Ontario : Exile Editions, 2019 1550968424 9781550968422 (OCoLC)1105990602 |
| ISBN |
9781550968415 (softcover) |
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1550968416 (softcover) |
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