The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative [Audiobook] download free by Thomas King
- Listen audiobook: The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative
- Author: Thomas King
- Release date: 2008/3/3
- Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780816646272
- Rating: 7.42 of 10
- Votes: 613
- Review by: Petrina Gee
- Review rating: 7.28 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/13
- Duration: 2H14M51S in 256 kbps (36.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-14
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, WAV, MP3, FLAC, MPEG4, MP4 (compression TAR.7Z, TAR.Z, ZIP, ARJ, RAR, TAR.XZ)
- Total pages original book: 184
- Includes a PDF summary of 17 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 13M18S (3.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 'Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous.' In The Truth About Stories, Native novelist and scholar Thomas King explores how stories shape who we are and how we understand and interact with other people. From creation stories to personal experiences, historical anecdotes to social injustices, racist propaganda to works of contemporary 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. So many stories have been told about Indians, King comments, that 'there is no 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 imagine a future. King reminds the reader, Native and non-Native, that storytelling carries with it social and moral responsibilties. 'Don't say in the years to come that you would have lived your life differently if only you had heard this story. You've heard it now.'
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Essays, Indigenous Peoples, History Of The Americas, Folklore, Myths & Legends, Biography: General
- Download servers: Uploaded, vBoxxCloud, Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive, FreakShare, Volafile. Compressed in TAR.7Z, TAR.Z, ZIP, ARJ, RAR, TAR.XZ
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 18.20 USD
- Dimensions: 127x203x13.97mm
- Weight: 208.65g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Minnesota, United States
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