Injichaag : my soul in story : Anishinaabe poetics in art and words
Book |
University of Manitoba Press,
Winnipeg :
[2019]
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Branch | Call Number | Location | Holdable? | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wainfleet | 759.11 Mesha -I | Adult - Non-Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | On Display |
About
The life story of Anishinaabe artist Rene Meshake in stories, poetry, and Anishinaabemowin "word bundles" that serve as a dictionary of Ojibwe poetics. Born in the railway town of Nakina in northwestern Ontario in 1948, Meshake spent his early years living off-reserve with his grandmother in the matriarchal land-based community, Pagwashing. At the age of ten Rene was scooped into the Indian residential school system, where he suffered sexual abuse and the loss of language and connection to his family and community. The experience suffocated his artistic expression and resulted in decades of struggle and healing. Now in his twenty-eighth year of sobriety, Rene is a successful multidisciplinary artist, musician and writer. Meshake's artistic vision and poetic lens provide a unique telling of a story of colonization and recovery. The book is organized thematically around a series of Meshake's paintings and framed by Kim Anderson, Rene's Odaanisan (adopted daughter), a scholar of oral history. Full of teachings that give a glimpse of traditional Anishinaabek life and views, the book is more than a memoir.
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Details
- ISBN: 9780887558481 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0887558488 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xvii, 281 pages : illustrations (some colour)print
- Publisher: Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
- General Note: LSC 24.95
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and Internet addresses.