The Power of Story: On Truth, the Trickster, and New Fictions for a New Era - Softcover

Johnson, Harold R.

 
9781771964876: The Power of Story: On Truth, the Trickster, and New Fictions for a New Era
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1771964871 ISBN 13: 9781771964876
Verlag: Biblioasis, 2022

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A CBC BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2022 • Longlisted for the First Nations Communities READ Award

Award-winning Indigenous author Harold R. Johnson discusses the promise and potential of storytelling.

Approached by an ecumenical society representing many faiths, from Judeo-Christians to fellow members of First Nations, Harold R. Johnson agreed to host a group who wanted to hear him speak about the power of storytelling. This book is the outcome of that gathering. In The Power of Story, Johnson explains the role of storytelling in every aspect of human life, from personal identity to history and the social contracts that structure our societies, and illustrates how we can direct its potential to re-create and reform not only our own lives, but the life we share. Companionable, clear-eyed, and, above all, optimistic, Johnson’s message is both a dire warning and a direct invitation to each of us to imagine and create, together, the world we want to live in.

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Harold R. Johnson (1954–2022) was the author of six works of fiction and six works of nonfiction, including Firewater: How Alcohol is Killing My People (and Yours), which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction. Born and raised in northern Saskatchewan to a Swedish father and a Cree mother, Johnson served in the Canadian Navy and worked as a miner, logger, mechanic, trapper, fisherman, tree planter, and heavy-equipment operator. He graduated from Harvard Law School and managed a private practice for several years before becoming a Crown prosecutor. He was a member of the Montreal Lake Cree Nation.

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Verlag
Biblioasis
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1771964871
ISBN 13 
9781771964876
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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