It's funny, it's readable, and it makes you think. Every high school English and History teacher should teach it. In his insightful review, 1 Michael Bourne traces the impact of The Inconvenient Indian as King’s thirteenth published book in the United States and Canada, concluding that it has had a curious history itself: it was rejected thirty-one times by U.S. This resource is also available in French in a pocket-sized format: L'Indien malcommode: Un portrait inattendu des Autochtones d'Amerique du Nord (format poche)Īdditional Information336 pages | 5.18" x 7. Every Canadian should read Thomas King's new book, The Inconvenient Indian. This is a book both timeless and timely, burnished with anger but tempered by wit, and ultimately a hard-won offering of hope-a sometimes inconvenient but nonetheless indispensable account for all of us, Indian and non-Indian alike, seeking to understand how we might tell a new story for the future. WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor PrizeThe Inconvenient Indian is at once a history and the complete subversion of a historyin short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be Indian in North America. In the process, King refashions old stories about historical events and figures, takes a sideways look at film and pop culture, relates his own complex experiences with activism, and articulates a deep and revolutionary understanding of the cumulative effects of ever-shifting laws and treaties on Native peoples and lands.
Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, The Inconvenient Indian distills the insights gleaned from Thomas King's critical and personal meditation on what it means to be "Indian" in North America, weaving the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Natives and Natives in the centuries since the two first encountered each other.
0 kommentar(er)
