The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative (INDIGENOUS AMERICAS)

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“Stories are wondrous things. And they’re dangerous.” In The Truth About Stories, Native novelist and scholar Thomas King explores how stories shape who we are and how we have in mind and interact with other people. From creation stories to personal experiences, historical anecdotes to social injustices, racist propaganda to works of latest Native literature, King probes Native culture’s deep ties to storytelling. With wry humor, King deftly 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. Such a lot of stories have been told about Indians, King comments, that “there is not any reason for the Indian to be real. The Indian simply has to exist in our imaginations.” 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, create a present, and believe a future. King reminds the reader, Native and non-Native, that storytelling carries with it social and moral responsibilties. “Don’t say in the future years that you’d have lived your life another way if only you had heard this story. You’ve gotten heard it now.”

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