{"product_id":"dawaa-the-space-between-9780776645193","title":"Dawaa: The Space Between","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Tareyn Johnson | Tareyn Johnson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Duo\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Duo\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - Native American\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDawaa: The Space Between\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates in poetry the tensions and beauty between the two ancestral languages of the author: Ojibwe and English. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a First Nations woman, Tareyn Johnson grew up without knowing the language of her ancestors. Her grandparents attended residential school, and neither they, nor her mother carried the language. Left with a deep longing desire to embrace Anishnaabemowin (Ojibwe) language, she began her learning journey as an adult. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs her understanding grew, words began to form visually in her mind. As a result, twenty-six poems--two for each of the Thirteen Moons--grouped seasonally, beautifully juxtapose Ojibwe and English to express Johnson's feeling of existing between two languages. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis collection of poems\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003enot intended as a didactic or language teaching tool--examines the unique experience of walking between two worlds, speaking and learning two languages, and relating the two ways of knowing in a liminal space... the space between. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003enanda-gikendan\u003c\/i\u003e--seek to know it, seek to learn it.","brand":"Duo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47776277332119,"sku":"9780776645193","price":939.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780776645193.webp?v=1777995320","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/dawaa-the-space-between-9780776645193","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}