Coyote, Contingency, and Community: Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water and Postmodern Trickster.

The character of Coyote in Thomas King's 'Green Grass, Running Water,' functions as a cosmic trickster who encourages readers to consider how interpretations of the world are shaped by colonial influences. This role of "semiotic trickster" heals the broken world the book's Native Americans at first inhabit. Coyote extends the trickster's role to disrupt stories where Native Americans are overcome.

   [T]rickster stories point to the way ordinary, conventional reality is an 
   illusory construction produced out of a particular univocal interpretation 
   of phenomena appearing as ...

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