{"product_id":"sir-john-a-paperback","title":"Sir John A. - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDrew Hayden Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn uproariously funny and sharply inquisitive new play from one of Canada's leading Indigenous playwrights, \u003cem\u003eSir John A: Acts of a Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion\u003c\/em\u003e explores the possibility of reconciliation between Peoples and urgently questions past and contemporary forms of Canadian colonialism. Taylor's twenty-seventh play, \u003cem\u003eSir John A\u003c\/em\u003e's characters include Canada's infamous first Prime Minister, red-nosed and pompous, full of patriarchal contempt for those \"strange and perplexing Indians,\" and his contemporary accusers: two Ojibway men and a soul-searching white woman. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBobby Rabbit, \u003cem\u003eSir John A\u003c\/em\u003e's irked, Anishinaabe main character, in a fit of anger and revenge, convinces his friend Hugh to accompany him on a \"sojourn of justice\" to dig up Sir John A. Macdonald's bones and hold them for ransom. Decades before, a medicine pouch belonging to Bobby's grandfather was taken away by the staff of the residential school where he was detained. The precious object was sent to a British Museum exhibition room for conservation - and now Bobby wants it repatriated. Along the way the pair pick up Anya, a young, bright, and opinionated woman fleeing a bad breakup, with conflicting ideas about Sir John A's place in Canadian history. Not to be left out of the argument, Canada's first Prime Minister, broadcasting live from nineteenth-century Ottawa, shows up with opinions of his own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eSir John A: Acts of a Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful satire, a creative debate about the past violences of colonial racism and the as yet untested potentiality of restoring harmony between Peoples in Canada. A contemporary classic by Taylor!\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDrew Hayden Taylor\u003c\/strong\u003e is an award-winning playwright, novelist, journalist, and filmmaker. Born, raised, and currently living on the Curve Lake First Nation in Ontario, he has done everything from performing stand-up comedy at the Kennedy Centre in Washington, D.C., to serving as Artistic Director of Canada's premier Indigenous theatre company, Native Earth Performing Arts. Taylor has spent the last thirty years, and an equal amount of books, spreading the gospel of Indigenous literature around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.4 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 25, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42695660798015,"sku":"9781772012149","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/4c04f4db7467e285657860fa0c4830ef.webp?v=1765004613","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/sir-john-a-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}