“How I Spent My Summer Vacation”

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. A Preface xi
5. Looking Back To The “Trickster Moment”
6. What's the Trouble with the Trickster? Kristina Fagan 3
7. Trickster Reflections 21
8. The Trickster Moment, Cultural Appropriation, and the Liberal Imagination in Canada 59
9. The Anti-Trickster in the Work of Sheila Watson, Mordecai Richler, and Gail Anderson-Dargatz 77
10. Raven
11. Why Ravens Smile to Little Old Ladies as They Walk By … 95
12. Gasps, Snickers, Narrative Tricks, and Deceptive Dominant Ideologies 99
13. A Conversation with Christopher Kientz 125
14. Personal Totems 135
15. Rigoureau, Naapi, And Wesakecak
16. Dances with Rigoureau 157
17. Naapi in My World 169
18. Sacred Stories in Comic Book Form 177
19. Coyote And Nanabush
20. Coyote Sees the Prime Minister and Coyote Goes to Toronto 195
21. Excerpt from Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit 197
22. (Re)Nationalizing Naanabozho 199
23. Quincentennial Trickster Poetics 221
24. Trickster Reflections 239
25. Telling Stories Across Lines
26. Processual Encounters of the Transformative Kind 263
27. Diasporic Violences, Uneasy Friendships, and The Kappa Child 289
28. “How I Spent My Summer Vacation” 307
29. Appendices 315
30. Copyright Acknowledgements 319
31. Contributors 321
32. Index 325
33. Books in the Indigenous Studies Series 336