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| ====== Excerpts from The Wishing-Bone Cycle ====== | <WRAP center round info 60%> |
| | //The Serpent and the Fire// (pp. 347-350) \\ |
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| | ====== The Wishing-Bone Cycle Excerpts ====== |
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| | Translated By: Jacob Nibenegenesabe per Howard Norman |
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| ===== Storyteller & Translator: Jacob Nibenegenesabe & Howard Norman ===== | ===== Storyteller & Translator: Jacob Nibenegenesabe & Howard Norman ===== |
| Thematically, the poem also centers a progression in time, although of a broader scope. The anthology includes a quotation from Jacob Nibenegenesabe, the Canadian teller of trickster narratives, credited with "The Wishing Bone Cycle." Nibenegenesabe says, "I go backward, look forward, as the porcupine does." This sentiment reflects the opening lines of "El poema de lo reverso," which read, "In which everything goes backwards/ in time and motion." In both poems, there is a longing for reversal of narrative. At the end of the excerpt from "The Wishing Bone Cycle," the speaker reflects regretfully, "I should have wished them all away/ first thing." Similarly, the premise of "El poema de lo reverso" is the wishing away of destructive colonialization through a literal reversal of time. | Thematically, the poem also centers a progression in time, although of a broader scope. The anthology includes a quotation from Jacob Nibenegenesabe, the Canadian teller of trickster narratives, credited with "The Wishing Bone Cycle." Nibenegenesabe says, "I go backward, look forward, as the porcupine does." This sentiment reflects the opening lines of "El poema de lo reverso," which read, "In which everything goes backwards/ in time and motion." In both poems, there is a longing for reversal of narrative. At the end of the excerpt from "The Wishing Bone Cycle," the speaker reflects regretfully, "I should have wished them all away/ first thing." Similarly, the premise of "El poema de lo reverso" is the wishing away of destructive colonialization through a literal reversal of time. |
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| ===== References ===== | ===== Works Cited ===== |
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| “Howard Norman.” Wikipedia, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Norman|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Norman]]. | “Howard Norman.” //Wikipedia//, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Norman|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Norman]]. |
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| Robinson, Amanda. “Trickster | the Canadian Encyclopedia.” , 5 Apr. 2018, [[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/trickster|https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/trickster]]. | Nibenegenesabe, Jacob and Howard Norman. "The Wishing-Bone Cycle [Excerpt]." //The Serpent and the Fire: Poetries of the Americas from Origins to Present//, edited by Jerome Rothernberg and Javier Taboada. University of California Press, 2024, pp. 347-350. |
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| “The Wishing Bone Cycle |.” Perilous Adventures, 5 Nov. 2016, [[https://www.perilousadventures.net/blog/?p=2366|https://www.perilousadventures.net/blog/?p=2366]]. | Robinson, Amanda. “Trickster | the Canadian Encyclopedia.” , //Canadian Encyclopedia//, 5 Apr. 2018, [[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/trickster|https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/trickster]]. |
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| “Wisakedjak.” Wikipedia, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisakedjak|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisakedjak]]. | Rothenberg, Jerome and Javier Taboada, Editors. //The Serpent and the Fire: Poetries of the Americas from Origins to Present//. University of California Press, 2024 |
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| {{tag>Myth Translation }} | “The Wishing Bone Cycle |.” //Perilous Adventures//, 5 Nov. 2016, [[https://www.perilousadventures.net/blog/?p=2366|https://www.perilousadventures.net/blog/?p=2366]]. |
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| | “Wisakedjak.” //Wikipedia//, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisakedjak|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisakedjak]]. |
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| | {{tag>Cree Canada Oral_Tradition Myth Trickster Translation }} |
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