The Truth About Stories
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4.2 • 32 Ratings
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
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.
Customer Reviews
Perspective Broadening
Few books have moved me to tears. This is one of them.
The book is interesting but not for me
I had to read this book for university and I can say this book is a conversation starter which is good. But this book was not interesting to me and I was happy when I finished it.