Portrait of an Indigenous Writer as a Trickster
If French-speaking Indigenous literatures are often and rightly dominated by the tragic tale of colonial trauma, the Wendat writer and multidisciplinary artist Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui maintains that humor, omnipresent in the daily lives of indigenous peoples, is a tool powerful for resilience and healing, but also for decolonial resistance. Through his work, notably the Kitchike Chronicles, he embodies the posture of the trickster, this mythical figure of the prankster transcending moral boundaries and standing beyond good and evil. A protester against Quebec nationalism, he opens the cultural corpus to new stories capable of depicting authentic realities, going beyond the clichés fantasized by the West. For Picard-Sioui, literature is a means of reappropriating history and building an inclusive community capable of ensuring our common futures. His multidimensional and engaged artistic approach reveals the subversive and liberating potential of humour, thus offering new horizons for contemporary Indigenous literature.
This event is co-sponsored by APFUCC