Table of Contents

Introduction - Eva Gruber
Thomas King's Abo-Modernist Novels - Marta Dvorak
"Wide-Angle Shots": Thomas King's Short Fiction and Poetry - Reingard M. Nischik
"Turtles All the Way Down": Literary and Cultural Criticism,Coyote Style - Robin Ridington
Thomas King Meets Indigenous Convergent Media - Stuart Christie
Rewriting Genre Fiction: The DreadfulWater Mysteries - Julia Breitbach
"All My Relations": Thomas King's Coyote Tetralogyfor Kids - Doris Wolf
Is This the Indian You Had in Mind? The Reception ofThomas King - Renée Hulan
Is This the Indian You Had in Mind? The Reception of Thomas King - Linda Warley
"Coyote Conquers the Campus": Thomas King's Presence inEducation - Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber
King's Contestatory Intertextualities: Sacred and Secular,Western and Indigenous - Marco Ulm
King's Contestatory Intertextualities: Sacred and Secular, Western and Indigenous - Martin Kuester
Thomas King's Humorous Traps - Aloys N.M. Fleischmann
"Have I Got Stories-" and "Coyote Was There": ThomasKing's Use of Trickster Figures and the Transformation ofTraditional Materials - Mark Shackleton
"One Good Story": Storytelling and Orality in ThomasKing's Work - Blanca Schorcht
Maps, Borders, and Cultural Citizenship: CartographicNegotiations in Thomas King's Work - Katja Sarkowsky
One Good Protest: Thomas King, Indian Policy, andAmerican Indian Activism - James H. Cox
"Sometimes It Works and Sometimes It Doesn't": GenderBlending and the Limits of Border Crossing in Green Grass,Running Water and Truth & Bright Water - Suzanne Rintoul
Storytelling in Different Genres: A Conversation withThomas King - Eva Gruber
Thomas King and the Art of Unhiding the Hidden - Marlene Goldman
The Truth about Thomas - Helen Hoy
Misdirection Is Still a Direction: Thomas King as a Teacher - Carter Meland
Tom King and the Dead Dog Café - Kathleen Flaherty
Dead Dog Café: Being an Indian on Air - Favel
Works by Thomas King
Selected Literary Criticism of Works by Thomas King(including Interviews)
Notes on the Contributors
Index

About the Author

Assistant Professor at the Department of Literature/American Studies, Universitat Konstanz (University of Constance).

Reviews

P]rovides a thorough analysis of King's role as a writer and storyteller. . . . One key chapter, Reingard Nischik's . . ., provides the first-ever treatment of King's poetry. . . . In his contribution, . . . James Cox examines King's response to US/Canadian Indian legislation and activist responses to it. . . . Most important, the last of the book's five parts provides an invaluable bibliography of all of King's work (including his photography) and critical essays about it. Recommended. All academic readers.
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