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The truth about stories : a native narrative / Thomas King.

By: Series: Indigenous Americas ; v. 1.Publication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2005.Description: 172 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780816646265 (hc/j : alk. paper)
  • 9780816646272 (pb : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 22
LOC classification:
  • PR9199.3.K4422 Z477 2005
  • PS173.I6 K56 2005
Contents:
"You'll never believe what happened" is always a great way to start -- You're not the Indian I had in mind -- Let me entertain you -- A million porcupines crying in the dark -- What is it about us that you don't like?
Review: "In The Truth About Stories, Native novelist and scholar Thomas King explores how stories shape who we are and how we understand and interact with other people. From creation stories to personal experiences, historical anecdotes to social injustices, racist propaganda to works of contemporary Native literature, King probes Native culture's deep ties to storytelling." "Thomas King weaves events from his own life, as a child in California, an academic in Canada, and a Native North American, with a wide-ranging discussion of stories told by and about Indians." "That imaginative Indian that North Americans hold dear has been challenged by Native writers - N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louis Owens, Robert Alexie, and others - who provide alternative narratives of the Native experience that question a past, create a present, and imagine a future. King reminds the reader, Native and non-Native, that storytelling carries with it social and moral responsibilities."--BOOK JACKET.
Holdings
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-172).

"You'll never believe what happened" is always a great way to start -- You're not the Indian I had in mind -- Let me entertain you -- A million porcupines crying in the dark -- What is it about us that you don't like?

"In The Truth About Stories, Native novelist and scholar Thomas King explores how stories shape who we are and how we understand and interact with other people. From creation stories to personal experiences, historical anecdotes to social injustices, racist propaganda to works of contemporary Native literature, King probes Native culture's deep ties to storytelling." "Thomas King weaves events from his own life, as a child in California, an academic in Canada, and a Native North American, with a wide-ranging discussion of stories told by and about Indians." "That imaginative Indian that North Americans hold dear has been challenged by Native writers - N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louis Owens, Robert Alexie, and others - who provide alternative narratives of the Native experience that question a past, create a present, and imagine a future. King reminds the reader, Native and non-Native, that storytelling carries with it social and moral responsibilities."--BOOK JACKET.

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