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Topic: RSS FeedWriting, speaking, and gender blending: reading Greek allusions in Truth and Bright Water.(Critical essay)
Mosaic (Winnipeg), September, 2007 by Rintoul, Suzanne
This essay explores how King's allusions to Greek oral history align maternal/paternal conflicts with structural tensions between orality and writing. King suggests that the preservation of oral culture lies in rejecting binary thinking that insists on the discreteness of oral and written by denaturalizing the mother/father binary.
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When exploring how Thomas King's novels subvert the notion that the written word is discrete from its oral genesis, critics concern themselves almost exclusively with the author's allusions to Native oral tradition. While it is true that King's adaptations of Native orality do much to destabilize the primacy of writing as a European institutional practice, one consequence of this trend is that King's numerous...
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