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Thomas King : Works and Impact.

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gruber, Eva
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, 2012.
Colección:European studies in North American literature and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Selected Literary Criticism of Works by Thomas King (including Interviews)Notes on the Contributors; Index; Backcover.