By Dave | Published: February 27, 2010
In Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water, one of the many methods used to create a Native American narrative, rather than a Westernised one, is the radical re-versioning of Western-Christian mythology. In this essay I explore the power of destroying and recreating traditions, and the effect it has upon a westerner's euro-centric reading of the novel.
By Dave | Published: August 9, 2007
Whenever I go on a holiday that doesn’t involve lots of drinking (i.e a holiday with my family) I always end up watching great films and reading great books. And at a rate of a novel every couple of days, and a film pretty much every day (read in the sun, watch a film when [...]
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Subversion / Reversion: The deconstruction and reconstruction of the Western cultural narrative through a Native American idiom in Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water