The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative - Brossura

King, Thomas

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0887846963 ISBN 13: 9780887846960

Casa editrice: House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada, 2003

Riassunto

Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award

"Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous."

Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples.

Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0887846963
• ISBN 13: 9780887846960
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile