SOURCE: Cox, James H. “‘All This Water Imagery Must Mean Something’: Thomas King's Revisions of Narratives of Domination and Conquest in Green Grass, Running Water.” American Indian Quarterly 24, no. 2 (spring 2000): 219-46.

In the following essay, Cox examines how King usurps European narratives of domination to create life-affirming storylines in Green Grass, Running Water.

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D. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature

How the Indian story is told, how it is nourished, who tells it, who nourishes it, and the consequences of its telling are among the most fascinating—and, at the same time, chilling—stories of our time.

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, “American Indian Intellectualism and the New Indian Story”

One of the major components of European and European North American storytelling traditions about colonialism is the plot that culminates in a conquest of the Americas. Authors of these stories frequently create Native characters in order...