Award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake
Simpson returns with a bold reimagination of the novel, one that
combines narrative and poetic fragments through a careful and
fierce reclamation of Anishinaabe aesthetics. Mashkawaji
(they/them) lies frozen in the ice, remembering a long-ago time of
hopeless connection and now finding freedom and solace in isolated
suspension. They introduce us to the seven main characters:
Akiwenzii, the old man who represents the narrator's will;
Ninaatig, the maple tree who represents their lungs; Mindimooyenh,
the old woman who represents their conscience; Sabe, the giant who
represents their marrow; Adik, the caribou who represents their
nervous system; Asin, the human who represents their eyes and ears;
and Lucy, the human who represents their brain. Each attempts to
commune with the unnatural urban-settler world, a world of
SpongeBob Band-Aids, Ziploc baggies, Fjallraven Kanken backpacks,
and coffee mugs emblazoned with institutional logos. And each
searches out the natural world, only to discover those pockets that
still exist are owned, contained, counted, and consumed. Cut off
from nature, the characters are cut off from their natural selves.
Noopiming is Anishinaabemowin for "in the bush," and the title is a
response to English Canadian settler and author Susanna Moodie's
1852 memoir Roughing It in the Bush. To read Simpson's work is an
act of decolonization, degentrification, and willful resistance to
the perpetuation and dissemination of centuries-old colonial
myth-making. It is a lived experience. It is a breaking open of the
self to a world alive with people, animals, ancestors, and spirits,
who are all busy with the daily labours of healing - healing not
only themselves, but their individual pieces of the network, of the
web that connects them all together. Enter and be changed.
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