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1 online resource (375 pages) |
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European Studies in North American Literature and Culture |
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European studies in North American literature and culture.
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Contents |
Frontcover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part 1: Works; 1: Thomas King's Abo-Modernist Novels; 2: "Wide-Angle Shots": Thomas King's Short Fiction and Poetry; 3: "Turtles All the Way Down": Literary and Cultural Criticism, Coyote Style; 4: Thomas King Meets Indigenous Convergent Media; 5: Rewriting Genre Fiction: The Dreadful Water Mysteries; 6: "All My Relations": Thomas King's Coyote Tetralogy for Kids; Part 2: Impact; 7: Is This the Indian You Had in Mind? The Reception of Thomas King; 8: "Coyote Conquers the Campus": Thomas King's Presence in Education; Part 3: Approaches |
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9: King's Contestatory Intertextualities: Sacred and Secular, Western and Indigenous10: Thomas King's Humorous Traps; 11: "Have I Got Stories-" and "Coyote Was There": Thomas King's Use of Trickster Figures and the Transformation of Traditional Materials; 12: "One Good Story": Storytelling and Orality in Thomas King's Work; 13: Maps, Borders, and Cultural Citizenship: Cartographic Negotiations in Thomas King's Work; 14: One Good Protest: Thomas King, Indian Policy, and American Indian Activism |
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15: "Sometimes It Works and Sometimes It Doesn't": Gender Blending and the Limits of Border Crossing in Green Grass, Running Water and Truth & Bright WaterPart 4: Encounters; 16: Storytelling in Different Genres: A Conversation with Thomas King; 17: Thomas King and the Art of Unhiding the Hidden; 18: The Truth about Thomas; 19: Misdirection Is Still a Direction: Thomas King as a Teacher; 20: Tom King and the Dead Dog Café; 21: Dead Dog Café: Being an Indian on Air; Part 5: Thomas King-A Bibliography; Works by Thomas King |
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Selected Literary Criticism of Works by Thomas King (including Interviews)Notes on the Contributors; Index; Backcover |
Summary |
Thomas King is one of North America's foremost Native writers, best known for his novels and short stories, but also a poet, a literary and cultural critic, and a noted filmmaker, photographer, and radio writer and performer. His work has been validated by literary awards and by its widespread inclusion in college and university curricula. Critical responses to King's work have been abundant, yet most of this criticism consists of journal articles, and to date only one book-length study of his work exists. This volume fills this gap by providing an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of all maj |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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King, Thomas, 1943- -- Criticism and interpretation
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SUBJECT |
King, Thomas, 1943- fast |
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King, Thomas 1943- gnd |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Native American.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781571138309 |
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1571138307 |
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