{"product_id":"dawaa-the-space-between-paperback","title":"Dawaa: The Space Between - Paperback","description":"\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":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378766643423,"sku":"9780776645193","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/KsnfR357m59780776645193.webp?v=1789261685","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/dawaa-the-space-between-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}