An Anthology of Monsters

How Story Saves Us from Our Anxiety
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-77212-682-2
Verlag: University of Alberta Press

Buch, Englisch, 56 Seiten, Format (B × H): 228 mm x 133 mm, Gewicht: 100 g

Reihe: CLC Kreisel Lecture Series

An Anthology of Monsters by Cherie Dimaline, award-winning author of The Marrow Thieves, is the tale of an intricate dance with life-long anxiety. It is about how the stories we tell ourselves can help reshape the ways in which we think, cope, and ultimately survive. Using examples from her books, from her mère, and from her own late night worry sessions, Dimaline choreographs a deeply personal narrative about all the ways in which we tell stories. She reveals how to collect and curate our stories, how they elicit difficult and beautiful conversations, and how family and community is a place of refuge and strength.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dimaline, Cherie

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction -

- Horror Stories -

- In the Beginning -

- Looking for Solace -

- Night Terrors -

- Manifesting Good and the Good Days as Bad Omens -

- Healing Stories -

- Mapping and Kinship -

- Medicine -

- Laughter and Survival -

- Warnings -

- Rougarou -

- How to Stand Up -

- Lee Maracle and the Way to Stand -

- The Double-Edged Sword of Being a Writer -

- Living Through Writing -

- Creating Optimism -

- Keeping an Anthology (Of Both, But in Order] -

- How to Avoid the Edit Reel -

- How to Curate the Anthology -

- The Celebration of You -

- RuPaul’s Present -

- How We Begin -

Leseproben

My own personal anxiety has been the mean, twisted, maniacal life partner I drag from apartment to house, and over the midnight mark into every new year, despite promises to finally kick it to the curb. It sticks and it sings and more than anything, it tells stories. And so, anxiety and I, with our storytelling genes, we exist in a kind of friendly/dysfunctional competition that’s been set up between us—who can tell the most powerful stories and which one will determine how I feel that day.

Über Autor(innen)

Dimaline, Cherie
Cherie Dimaline is the award-winning author of Hunting by Stars, Empire of Wild, and the international bestseller The Marrow Thieves, winner of the Governor General’s Award and the prestigious Kirkus Prize for Young Readers. She is from the Georgian Bay Métis Community and lives in Midland, Ontario.