The Truth about Stories

The Truth about Stories
Author :
Publisher : House of Anansi
Total Pages : 184
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780887846960
ISBN-13 : 0887846963
Rating : 4/5 (963 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Truth about Stories by : Thomas King

Download or read book The Truth about Stories written by Thomas King and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2003 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


The Truth about Stories Related Books

The Truth about Stories
Language: en
Pages: 184
Authors: Thomas King
Categories: American literature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: House of Anansi

GET EBOOK

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. "An
History Through Stories
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Chris Smith
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07-13 - Publisher: Storytelling School

GET EBOOK

Part of a complete approach to learning and improving literacy using storytelling, from Storytelling Schools, which offers resources and training for teachers.
History Stories for Children
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Christian Liberty PR
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-08-23 - Publisher: Christian Liberty Press

GET EBOOK

History Stories for Children exposes children to a wide variety of wholesome stories based upon famous historical events and personalities from the Bible, Ameri
How History Gets Things Wrong
Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: Alex Rosenberg
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-09 - Publisher: MIT Press

GET EBOOK

Why we learn the wrong things from narrative history, and how our love for stories is hard-wired. To understand something, you need to know its history. Right?
Archive Stories
Language: en
Pages: 409
Authors: Antoinette Burton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-01-25 - Publisher: Duke University Press

GET EBOOK

Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with them—about the effect that the rese