Thomas King
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Thomas King was born in 1943 in Sacramento, California and is of Cherokee, Greek and German descent. He obtained his PhD from the University of Utah in 1986. He is known for works in which he addresses the marginalization of American Indians, delineates "pan-Indian" concerns and histories, and attempts to abolish common stereotypes about Native Americans. He taught Native American Studies at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, and at the University of Minnesota. He is currently a Professor of English at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. King has become one of the foremost writers of fiction about Canada's Native people.
Books
Truth & Bright Water
"This summer for Tecumseh and Lum, two young Native men coming of age, will be a summer of mysteries and returns. It opens with a distraught woman throwing things into the river out of a suitcase - then jumping in after. Tecumseh and Lum go to help, but she and her truck have disappeared. On the bluff overlooking the river, Tecumseh's dog discovers a child's skull. Other mysteries also puzzle Tecumseh - if his mom will take his dad back; if his rolling-stone Auntie Cassie is home to stay this time, and why she's brought a suitcase full of baby clothes; why no one protects Lum from his father's rages.". "Then Tecumseh gets a job helping an artist - Monroe Swimmer, Bright Water's most famous son, returned home and living in a vacant church - with the project of a lifetime. As the tourists - buckskin-clad Germans, drunk Americans, and a ghostly little Cherokee girl from Georgia - begin to arrive for the annual Indian Days festival, the secrets of Truth and Bright Water come together in a climax of tragedy, reconciliation, and love."--BOOK JACKET.
Green grass, running water
Strong, Sassy women and hard-luck hardheaded men, all searching for the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world, perform an elaborate dance of approach and avoidance in this magical, rollicking tale by Cherokee author Thomas King. Alberta is a university professor who would like to trade her two boyfriends for a baby but no husband; Lionel is forty and still sells televisions for a patronizing boss; Eli and his log cabin stand in the way of a profitable dam project. These three—and others—are coming to the Blackfoot reservation for the Sun Dance and there they will encounter four Indian elders and their companion, the trickster Coyote—and nothing in the small town of Blossom will be the same again…
The Harbrace Anthology of Short Fiction -- Second Edition
Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [The black cat]( / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Bartleby, the scrivener]( / Herman Melville -- [The story of an hour]( / Kate Chopin -- An outpost of progress / Joseph Conrad -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- [Araby]( / James Joyce -- The horse dealer's daughter / D.H. Lawrence -- Bliss / Katherine Mansfield -- Rope / Katherine Anne Porter -- [A rose for Emily]( / William Faulkner -- A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway -- The lamp at noon / Sinclair Ross -- Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty -- My heart is broken / Mavis Gallant -- The loons / Margaret Laurence -- Dulse / Alice Munro -- Inland passage / Jane Rule -- A & P / John Updike -- Fogbound in Avalon / Elizabeth McGrath -- The conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth -- The motor car / Austin C. Clarke -- The concert stages of Europe / Jack Hodgins -- The resplendent quetzal / Margaret Atwood -- The tenant / Bharati Mukherjee -- Borders / Thomas King -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- The naked man / Greg Hollingshead -- Cages / Guy Vanderhaeghe -- Two kinds / Amy Tan.
A catalogue of a large and valuable collection of drawings, prints & books of prints belonging to Mr. Thos. Major, (deceased) associate engraver of the Royal Academy
Une brève histoire des Indiens au Canada
À Toronto, une volée d'Indiens en pleine migration se frappent contre les gratteciel de Bay Street et retombent sur le pavé, comme autant d'oiseaux assommés, pour le plus grand étonnement des hommes d'affaires de passage. Heureusement que deux employés de la ville, Bill et Rudy, sont là pour les étiqueter et les relâcher dans la nature, après les avoir soignés. Un bébé blanc arrivé par erreur par la poste est offert comme premier prix au bingo hebdomadaire dans une réserve indienne, même si la plupart des joueurs préféreraient remporter le deuxième prix, qui est une camionnette. Voici quelques-unes des situations qu'on trouve dans ce recueil de Thomas King, qui y donne libre cours à la mordante ironie caractérisant son oeuvre. Ces vingt nouvelles sont autant de pavés jetés dans la mare des bons sentiments et des conceptions préfabriquées touchant les Autochtones. Elles sont surtout de délicieux morceaux de fiction, où l'intelligence du propos le dispute à la malice du conteur.
The Inconvenient Indian
"The Inconvenient Indian is at once a "history" and the complete subversion of a history--in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be "Indian" in North America. Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Natives and Natives in the centuries since the two first encountered each other. In the process, King refashions old stories about historical events and figures, takes a sideways look at film and pop culture, relates his own complex experiences with activism, and articulates a deep and revolutionary understanding of the cumulative effects of ever-shifting laws and treaties on Native peoples and lands. This is a book both timeless and timely, burnished with anger but tempered by wit, and ultimately a hard-won offering of hope -- a sometimes inconvenient, but nonetheless indispensable account for all of us, Indian and non-Indian alike, seeking to understand how we might tell a new story for the future."--books.google.
The Inconvenient Indian A Curious Account Of Native People In North America
In The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King offers a deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated, and utterly unconventional account of Indian-White relations in North America since initial contact. Ranging freely across the centuries and the Canada-U.S. border, King debunks fabricated stories of Indian savagery and White heroism, takes an oblique look at Indians (and cowboys) in film and popular culture, wrestles with the history of Native American resistance and his own experiences as a Native rights activist, and articulates a profound, revolutionary understanding of the cumulative effects of ever-shifting laws and treaties on Native peoples and lands.