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Thomas King : works and impact / edited by Eva Gruber.

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Summary:

Thomas King is one of North America's foremost Native writers, best known for his novels, including Green Grass, Running Water, for the DreadfulWater mysteries, and for collections of short stories such as One Good Story, That One and A Short History of Indians in Canada. But King is also a poet, a literary and cultural critic, and a noted filmmaker, photographer, and scriptwriter and performer for radio. His career and oeuvre have been validated by literary awards and by the inclusion of his writing 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. Thomas King: Works and Impact fills this gap by providing an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of all major aspects of King's oeuvre as well as its reception and influence. It brings together expert scholars to discuss King's role in and impact on Native literature and to offer in-depth analyses of his multifaceted body of work. The volume will be of interest to students and scholars of literature, English, and Native American studies, and to King aficionados. Contributors: Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber, Julia Breitbach, Stuart Christie, James H. Cox, Marta Dvorak, Floyd Favel, Kathleen Flaherty, Aloys Fleischmann, Marlene Goldman, Eva Gruber, Helen Hoy, Renée Hulan and Linda Warley, Carter Meland, Reingard M. Nischik, Robin Ridington, Suzanne Rintoul, Katja Sarkowsky, Blanca Schorcht, Mark Shackleton, Martin Kuester and Marco Ulm, Doris Wolf. Eva Gruber is Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Konstanz, Germany. -- Review from amazon.com website.

Record details

ISBN: 9781571134356 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1571134352 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xi, 361 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-343) and index.

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Machine generated contents note: Preface -- Introduciton -- pt. 1 Works -- 1. Thomas King's Abo-Modernist Novels / Marta Dvorak -- 2. "Wide-Angle Shots": Thomas King's Short Fiction and Poetry / Reingard M. Nischik -- 3. "Turtles All the Way Down": Literary and Cultural Criticism, Coyote Style / Robin Ridington -- 4. Thomas King Meets Indigenous Convergent Media / Stuart Christie -- 5. Rewriting Genre Fiction: The DreadfulWater Mysteries / Julia Breitbach -- 6. "All My Relations": Thomas King's Coyote Tetralogy for Kids / Doris Wolf -- pt. 2 Impact -- 7. Is This the Indian You Had in Mind? The Reception of Thomas King / Linda Warley -- 8. "Coyote Conquers the Campus": Thomas King's Presence in Education / Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber -- pt. 3 Approaches -- 9. King's Contestatory Intertextualities: Sacred and Secular, Western and Indigenous / Martin Kuester -- 10. Thomas King's Humorous Traps / Aloys Fleischmann -- 11. "Have I Got Stories---" and "Coyote Was There": Thomas King's Use of Trickster Figures and the Transformation of Traditional Materials / Mark Shackleton -- 12. "One Good Story": Storytelling and Orality in Thomas King's Work / Blanca Schorcht -- 13. Maps, Borders, and Cultural Citizenship: Cartographic Negotiations in Thomas King's Work / Katja Sarkowsky -- 14. One Good Protest: Thomas King, Indian Policy, and American Indian Activism / James H. Cox -- 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 Water / Suzanne Rintoul -- pt. 4 Encounters -- 16. Storytelling in Different Genres: A Conversation with Thomas King / Eva Gruber -- 17. Thomas King and the Art of Unhiding the Hidden / Marlene Goldman -- 18. Truth about Thomas / Helen Hoy -- 19. Misdirection Is Still a Direction: Thomas King as a Teacher / Carter Meland -- 20. Tom King and the Dead Dog Cafe / Kathleen Flaherty -- 21. Dead Dog Cafe: Being an Indian on Air / Floyd Favel -- pt. 5 Thomas King---A Bibliography -- Works / Thomas King -- Selected Literary Criticism of Works / Thomas King -- Notes on contributors -- Index.