TY - BOOK ID - 80155010 TI - The truth about stories: a native narrative PY - 2004 SN - 0816646260 9780816646265 PB - Minneapolis, Minn. University of Minnesota Press DB - UniCat KW - Fiction KW - American literature KW - Canada KW - Authors, Canadian KW - Indian authors KW - Indians in popular culture KW - Indians of North America KW - Public opinion KW - #KOHU:CANADIANA KW - Popular culture KW - Authors, Indian KW - Authors KW - Ethnic identity KW - Race identity KW - King, Thomas, KW - King, Thomas Hunt, KW - GoodWeather, Hartley, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80155010 AB - "In The Truth About Stories, Native novelist and scholar Thomas King explores how stories shape who we are and how we understand and interact with other people. From creation stories to personal experiences, historical anecdotes to social injustices, racist propaganda to works of contemporary Native literature, King probes Native culture's deep ties to storytelling." "Thomas King weaves events from his own life, as a child in California, an academic in Canada, and a Native North American, with a wide-ranging discussion of stories told by and about Indians." "That imaginative Indian that North Americans hold dear has been challenged by Native writers - N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louis Owens, Robert Alexie, and others - who provide alternative narratives of the Native experience that question a past, create a present, and imagine a future. King reminds the reader, Native and non-Native, that storytelling carries with it social and moral responsibilities."--BOOK JACKET. ER -