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Green Grass, Running Water

Author : Thomas King
Publisher : HarperPerennial
Release Date : 1999
ISBN 10 : 0006485138
Pages : 431 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (485 users)

Download Green Grass, Running Water PDF Full or another Format written by Thomas King and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 1999 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAT IONAL BESTSELLER * FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FOR FICTION * WINNER OF THE CANADIAN AUTHORS' AWARD FOR FICTION * AMONG THE BEST CANADIAN FICTION OF THE CENTURY (QUILL & QUIRE) * A CBC CANADA READS FINALIST (2004) Welcome to the town of Blossom--part myth, part hilariously off-kilter reality.Green Grass, Running Water is the story of five Blackfoot Indians whose existences connect in ways that are at once coincidental, comical and cosmic. This is a rich tale, weaving magical humour, revisionist history, nostalgia and myth into one bright whole. Green Grass, Running Water's timeless appeal has kept it flying off bookstore shelves since it was published in 1993. Enhanced with a P.S. section, this edition introduces a new generation of readers to King's unique take on contemporary human experience.

Biblical References in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water

Author : Martin D. C. Bruch
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2010-12
ISBN 10 : 9783640780860
Pages : 41 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (64 users)

Download Biblical References in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water PDF Full or another Format written by Martin D. C. Bruch and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,0, University of Constance, course: (Re-)Writing Gender in Contemporary Native North American Literature, language: English, abstract: In reading Thomas King's novel Green Grass, Running Water we inevitably come across many references to biblical names and stories. Intertextuality is a major technique in the novel and especially the mythical stories are explicitly interwoven with hints to the Bible. The author deals with canonical texts as well as with Indian myths and, as we're going to see later, also with historical events etc. He takes up names and parts of the pre-text and re-writes them. "It is essential to note, however, that these pre-texts are not opposed to each other as part of a binary structure. Rather they interact with one another and form something new each time they are told"1. Besides the many direct and indirect references, there are also several correspondences between the structure of Green Grass, Running Water and the Bible, e.g. the four stories told by the four old Indians can be seen as a parallel to the four gospels in the New Testament2. In the following I am going to focus on explicit references in the four mythical stories that develop in the conversation of the trickster Coyote and a first person narrator. The main part of this analysis is the comparison between the biblical pre-texts and King's re-writing. As the actual parallels are very few there has to be some other idea behind these intertextual devices. It is probably more about history and hierarchy than about the pure pre-text.

Parent-Child-Relationships in Canadian Literature (King, Thomas: Green Grass, Running Water; Laurence, Margaret: A Bird in the House)

Author : Lysann Hofmann
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2007-09-27
ISBN 10 : 9783638759748
Pages : 29 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (638 users)

Download Parent-Child-Relationships in Canadian Literature (King, Thomas: Green Grass, Running Water; Laurence, Margaret: A Bird in the House) PDF Full or another Format written by Lysann Hofmann and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2 (B), Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Institute for Anglistics/ American Studies), course: Canadian Literature, language: English, abstract: There are many different kinds of parent-child relationships: On the one hand there is the 'perfect' relationship, which means that the parents love their children and they love their parents. This seems to be wonderful, but there are also problems. For example, in some cases the people love their children so much that they become thoroughly spoilt. On the other hand there is the total 'family disaster', which means that in some cases the parents don't even have any contact with their children. Unfortunately, there are many relationships which have this character. All in all, it is very difficult for parents to build up a really good relationship to their children. Childhood is the most important time in a human's life: The children see their parents as the 'best' people in the world and expect them to behave like this. Later, when the children get older, they develop in different ways and it will be more difficult for the parents to do the right things. So, the expectations of the children remain the same, but they make it more difficult for their parents. In this way, there can develop many problems. Such parent-child relationships are one of the main subjects in A Bird in the House by Margaret Laurence and Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King. These two novels are about relationships and in which way these relationships work. Furthermore, it is talked about different kinds of people's behaviour and what effect it has on other people.

Coyote Kills John Wayne

Author : Carlton Smith
Publisher : UPNE
Release Date : 2000
ISBN 10 : 1584650206
Pages : 184 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (65 users)

Download Coyote Kills John Wayne PDF Full or another Format written by Carlton Smith and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the cultural and literary borderlands between Native American, postcolonial, and postmodern theories of cultural representation, Carlton Smith explicates Frederick Jackson Turner's famous frontier thesis in terms of the repressed Other. Through readings of six important contemporary works by innovative writers, Smith provides rich insight into "minority" versions of the frontier.

Border Crossings

Author : Arnold E. Davidson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2003-01-01
ISBN 10 : 0802041345
Pages : 244 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (41 users)

Download Border Crossings PDF Full or another Format written by Arnold E. Davidson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas King is the first Native writer to generate widespread interest in both Canada and the United States. He has been nominated twice for Governor General's Awards, and his first novel, Medicine River, has been transformed into a CBC movie. His books have been reviewed in publications such as The New York Times Book Review, The Globe and Mail, and People magazine. King is also the author of the serialized radio series The Dead Dog Café and is an accomplished photographer. Border Crossings is the first full-length study to explore King's art. Davidson, Walton, and Andrews employ a framework of postcolonial and border studies theory to examine the concepts of nation, race, and sexuality in King's work. They examine how King's art routinely explores cross-cultural dynamics, including Native rights and race relations, American and Canadian cultural interaction, and the artistic traditions of Europe and North America. The authors argue that, by situating these concepts within a comic framework, King avoids the polemics that often surface in cultural critiques. His writing engages, entertains, and educates. This provocative analysis of King's art reads across cultures and between borders, and makes an important contribution to the study of Native writing, Canadian and American literature, border studies, and humour studies.

Challenging Canada

Author : Gabriele Helms
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2003
ISBN 10 : 0773525874
Pages : 230 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (525 users)

Download Challenging Canada PDF Full or another Format written by Gabriele Helms and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Challenging Canada Gabriele Helms examines novels by Jeannette Armstrong, Joy Kogawa, Daphne Marlatt, Sky Lee, Aritha van Herk, Thomas King, and Margaret Sweatman. As resistance literature, these novels question the idea of a homogeneous Canadian culture based on the idea of "a peaceable kingdom." Helms shows how narrative techniques can contribute to or impede a text's challenges to hegemonic discourses and social injustices; novels become valuable sources for cultural studies because cultural experiences are translated into and meanings are produced by their narrative forms.Challenging Canada is the first book-length study to bring a Bakhtinian approach to bear on Canadian literature. Gabriele Helms develops a cultural narratology to argue that the contemporary Canadian novels in English considered in this book challenge dominant constructions of Canada from positions of difference and resistance, inscribing previously oppressed and silenced voices through dialogic relations. She makes Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of dialogism amenable to textual analysis and problematizes its ideological forces by emphasizing elements of struggle and conflict. Challenging Canada rejects dialogism as a normative liberal pluralism and understands the inequality between voices as historically and socially constructed.

The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature

Author : Eva-Marie Kröller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-02-05
ISBN 10 : 0521891310
Pages : 328 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (891 users)

Download The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature PDF Full or another Format written by Eva-Marie Kröller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to major writers, genres and topics in Canadian literature. Contributors pay attention to the social, political and economic developments that have informed literary events. Broad surveys of fiction, drama, and poetry are complemented by chapters on Aboriginal writing, francophone writing, autobiography, literary criticism, writing by women, and the emergence of urban writing in a country traditionally defined by its regions. Also discussed are genres that have a special place in Canadian literature, such as nature-writing, exploration- and travel-writing, and short fiction.

"Trading Magic for Fact," Fact for Magic

Author : Marc Colavincenzo
Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2021-10-18
ISBN 10 : 9789004487833
Pages : 261 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (4 users)

Download "Trading Magic for Fact," Fact for Magic PDF Full or another Format written by Marc Colavincenzo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study brings together three major areas of interest - history, postmodern fiction, and myth. Whereas neither history and postmodern fiction nor history and myth are strangers to one another, postmodernism and myth are odd bedfellows. For many critics, postmodern thought with its resistance to metanarratives stands in direct and deliberate contrast to myth with its apparent tendency to explain the world by means of neat, complete narratives. There is a strain of postmodern Canadian historical fiction in which myth actually forms a complement not only to postmodernism's suspicion of master-narratives but also to its privileging of those marginal and at times ignored areas of history. The fourteen works of Canadian fiction considered demonstrate a doubled impulse which at first glance seems contradictory. On the one hand, they go about demythologizing - in the Barthesian sense - various elements of historical discourse, exposing its authority as not simply a natural given but as a construct. This includes the fact that the view of history portrayed in the fiction has been either underrepresented or suppressed by official historiography. On the other hand, the history is then re-mythologized, in that it becomes part of a pre-existing myth, its mythic elements are foregrounded, myth and magic are woven into the narrative, or it is portrayed as extraordinary in some way. The result is an empowering of these histories for the future; they are made larger than life and unforgettable.

Across the Lines

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Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2022-05-16
ISBN 10 : 9789004484924
Pages : 320 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (4 users)

Download Across the Lines PDF Full or another Format written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third volume of ASNEL Papers covers a wide range of theoretical and thematic approaches to the subject of intertextuality. Intertextual relations between oral and written versions of literature, text and performance, as well as problems emerging from media transitions, regionally instructed forms of intertextuality, and the works of individual authors are equally dealt with. Intertextuality as both a creative and a critical practice frequently exposes the essential arbitrariness of literary and cultural manifestations that have become canonized. The transformation and transfer of meanings which accompanies any crossing between texts rests not least on the nature of the artistic corpus embodied in the general framework of historically and socially determined cultural traditions. Traditions, however, result from selective forms of perception; they are as much inventions as they are based on exclusion. Intertextuality leads to a constant reinforcement of tradition, while, at the same time, intertextual relations between the new literatures and other English-language literatures are all too obvious. Despite the inevitable impact of tradition, the new literatures tend to employ a dynamic reading of culture which fosters social process and transition, thus promoting transcultural rather than intercultural modes of communication. Writing and reading across borders becomes a dialogue which reveals both differences and similarities. More than a decolonizing form of deconstruction, intertextuality is a strategy for communicating meaning across cultural boundaries.

Rewriting Apocalypse in Canadian Fiction

Author : Marlene Goldman
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2005
ISBN 10 : 0773529047
Pages : 236 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (529 users)

Download Rewriting Apocalypse in Canadian Fiction PDF Full or another Format written by Marlene Goldman and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Traditional apocalyptic narratives highlight the drama of a chosen elect. Contemporary Canadian fiction, however, typically portrays the apocalypse from the perspective of marginalized individuals barred from paradise, creating a distinctly anti-apocalyptic discourse. Rewriting Apocalypse in Canadian Fiction is the first book to explore the literary, psychological, political, and cultural repercussions of the apocalypse in the fiction of Timothy Findley, Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Atwood, Thomas King, and Joy Kogawa, Marlene Goldman traces the history of the apocalyptic literary tradition and its key motifs in close readings of these Canadian works, which challenge rather than embrace apocalypse's key features."--BOOK JACKET.

Post-Colonial Literatures

Author : Deborah L. Madsen
Publisher : Pluto Press
Release Date : 1999-06-20
ISBN 10 : 0745315100
Pages : 252 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (315 users)

Download Post-Colonial Literatures PDF Full or another Format written by Deborah L. Madsen and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 1999-06-20 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores what characterises a a good lifea and how this idea has been affected by globalisation and neoliberalism."

Mixing Race, Mixing Culture

Author : Monika Kaup
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2002-08-15
ISBN 10 : 0292743483
Pages : 332 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (743 users)

Download Mixing Race, Mixing Culture PDF Full or another Format written by Monika Kaup and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2002-08-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last five centuries, the story of the Americas has been a story of the mixing of races and cultures. Not surprisingly, the issue of miscegenation, with its attendant fears and hopes, has been a pervasive theme in New World literature, as writers from Canada to Argentina confront the legacy of cultural hybridization and fusion. This book takes up the challenge of transforming American literary and cultural studies into a comparative discipline by examining the dynamics of racial and cultural mixture and its opposite tendency, racial and cultural disjunction, in the literatures of the Americas. Editors Kaup and Rosenthal have brought together a distinguished set of scholars who compare the treatment of racial and cultural mixtures in literature from North America, the Caribbean, and Latin America. From various angles, they remap the Americas as a multicultural and multiracial hemisphere, with a common history of colonialism, slavery, racism, and racial and cultural hybridity.

Contemporary American Indian Writing

Author : Dee Alyson Horne
Publisher : Peter Lang
Release Date : 1999
ISBN 10 : 0820442984
Pages : 252 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (442 users)

Download Contemporary American Indian Writing PDF Full or another Format written by Dee Alyson Horne and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 1999 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with the premise that American Indians have been colonized, Horne outlines the dangers of colonial mimicry. She proposes a theory of subversive mimicry through which writers can use the language of the colonial power to subvert it and inscribe diverse First Nations voices. Drawing on select works by Thomas King, Beatrice Culleton, Ruby Slipperjack, Jeannette Armstrong, Lee Maracle, and Tomson Highway, the study also elucidates decolonizing strategies with which readers can collaborate.

Rediscovering Magical Realism in the Americas

Author : Shannin Schroeder
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date : 2004
ISBN 10 : 0275980499
Pages : 210 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (98 users)

Download Rediscovering Magical Realism in the Americas PDF Full or another Format written by Shannin Schroeder and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2004 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores magical realism as a common denominator in the literature of the Americas.

Is Canada Postcolonial?

Author : Ludovic comte de Colleville
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Release Date : 2003-05-26
ISBN 10 : 9780889204164
Pages : 368 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (889 users)

Download Is Canada Postcolonial? PDF Full or another Format written by Ludovic comte de Colleville and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2003-05-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can postcolonialism be applied to Canadian literature? In all that has been written about postcolonialism, surprisingly little has specifically addressed the position of Canada, Canadian literature, or Canadian culture. Postcolonialism is a theory that has gained credence throughout the world; it is be productive to ask if and how we, as Canadians, participate in postcolonial debates. It is also vital to examine the ways in which Canada and Canadian culture fit into global discussions as our culture reflects how we interact with our neighbours, allies, and adversaries. This collection wrestles with the problems of situating Canadian literature in the ongoing debates about culture, identity, and globalization, and of applying the slippery term of postcolonialism to Canadian literature. The topics range in focus from discussions of specific literary works to general theoretical contemplations. The twenty-three articles in this collection grapple with the recurrent issues of postcolonialism — including hybridity, collaboration, marginality, power, resistance, and historical revisionism — from the vantage point of those working within Canada as writers and critics. While some seek to confirm the legitimacy of including Canadian literature in the discussions of postcolonialism, others challenge this very notion.

Muting White Noise

Author : James H. Cox
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2012-11-19
ISBN 10 : 9780806185460
Pages : 354 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (86 users)

Download Muting White Noise PDF Full or another Format written by James H. Cox and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native American fiction writers have confronted Euro-American narratives about Indians and the colonial world those narratives help create. These Native authors offer stories in which Indians remake this colonial world by resisting conquest and assimilation, sustaining their cultures and communities, and surviving. In Muting White Noise, James H. Cox considers how Native authors have liberated our imaginations from colonial narratives. Cox takes his title from Sherman Alexie, for whom the white noise of a television set represents the white mass-produced culture that mutes American Indian voices. Cox foregrounds the work of Native intellectuals in his readings of the American Indian novel tradition. He thereby develops a critical perspective from which to re-see the role played by the Euro-American novel tradition in justifying and enabling colonialism. By examining novels by Native authors—especially Thomas King, Gerald Vizenor, and Alexie—Cox shows how these writers challenge and revise colonizers’ tales about Indians. He then offers “red readings” of some revered Euro-American novels, including Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, and shows that until quite recently, even those non-Native storytellers who sympathized with Indians could imagine only their vanishing by story’s end. Muting White Noise breaks new ground in literary criticism. It stands with Native authors in their struggle to reclaim their own narrative space and tell stories that empower and nurture, rather than undermine and erase, American Indians and their communities.

Von Puritanern, Relativsätzen und Wandelbaren Frauengestalten

Author : Frauke Reitemeier
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Göttingen
Release Date : 2009
ISBN 10 : 9783940344755
Pages : 144 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (94 users)

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