![]() She told the audience that her Trickster trilogy started out as a very, very short story about the Trickster and it kept expanding. I avoid the creatures associated with the formal stories because they are covered by Haisla copyright … I tell stories that are in the Haisla public domain.” She explains, “I come from a potlatch culture, in which there are three kinds of stories: formal, informal, and casual. The author is very careful about the ways in which she uses storytelling. “They went through terrible suffering and then became human again.” “The most powerful people in our culture went through the worst and came through with their family,” said Robinson. Her new novels, Son of a Trickster and Trickster Drift, tell contemporary stories of suffering and resilience. Readers of her acclaimed Trickster triology get a sense of this combination from her writing, which weaves together stories of abuse, violence and dysfunctional families, with humour and Indigenous mythology. The stories I grew up with had wonder, but they also had danger,” she said. ![]() “A lot of the supernatural creatures in our mythology are quite scary. Eden Robinson’s book Trickster DriftĪ member of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations, Eden Robinson grew up with Trickster stories. York University Teaching Assistant Dana Patrascu-Kingsley sent the following report to YFile. This year’s Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series featured author Eden Robinson, who visited York University on Oct. ![]()
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