Description
Blending memoir, criticism, and Indigenous storytelling, this book examines how narratives—both personal and historical—create the identities we carry and the realities we come to accept. Through a series of chapters that weave King’s own life with quotations from literature and history, the author shows that stories are not passive entertainment but living frameworks that shape community memory, self-understanding, and cultural survival. With a clear, witty, and deeply reflective voice, he challenges the “truth” of dominant accounts and asks what happens when the stories told about Native peoples become the stories they are forced to live with. Ultimately, the book invites readers to reconsider the power of storytelling—its capacity to connect and to heal, and its potential to mislead, confine, or harden into harmful fiction.
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paperback
House of Anansi
Published Nov 1, 2003
196 pages
ISBN: 9780887848957
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First Published
2003
Language
eng
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