Bibliograph

Making love with the land, essays, Joshua Whitehead

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Making love with the land, essays, Joshua Whitehead

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

essays

Main title

Making love with the land

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1319346626

Responsibility statement

Joshua Whitehead

Sub title

essays

Summary

"The novel Jonny Appleseed established Joshua Whitehead as one of the most exciting and important new literary voices on Turtle Island, winning both a Lambda Literary Award and Canada Reads 2021. In Making Love with the Land, his first nonfiction book, Whitehead explores the relationships between body, language, and land through creative essay, memoir, and confession. In prose that is unabashedly queer and visceral, evocative and sensual, raw and autobiographical, Whitehead writes of an Indigenous body coping with trauma. Deeply rooted within, he reaches across anguish to create a new form of storytelling he calls 'biostory'--beyond genre, and entirely sovereign. Through this narrative perspective, Making Love with the Land recasts mental health struggles and complex emotional landscapes from nefarious parasites on his (and our) well-being to kin, no matter what difficulties they present to us. Whitehead ruminates on loss and pain without shame or ridicule, instead highlighting the experiences as waypoints for personal transformation. Written in the aftermath of heartbreak, before and during the pandemic, Making Love with the Land illuminates this present moment in which both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people are rediscovering old ways and creating new ways to connect with and show responsibility toward each other and the land. Intellectually audacious and emotionally compelling, Whitehead shares his devotion to the world in which we live and brilliantly--even joyfully--maps his experience on the land that has shaped stories, histories, and bodies from time immemorial."

Table Of Contents

Who names the rez dog Rez? -- My body is a hinterland -- On ekphrasis and emphases -- A geography of queer woundings -- The year in video gaming -- Writing as a rupture -- I own a body that wants to break -- My Aunties are wolverines -- Me, the Joshua Tree -- The pain eater

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