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Cargando... Tortured Skins and Other Fictionspor Maurice Kenny
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I have no idea why the other readers of this collection would have given it five stars, some narratives are contestable and I really wanted to like this book but Kenny overwrites every single story. The only one with any measure of restraint is the documentary fiction piece at the start "Black Kettle: Fear and Recourse" which is still overwrought and confusing despite the simple language. Most of these tales are ghost stories in some regard and practically all of them deal with man's, Native American or white, relationship to nature. There are some worthy themes but it appears the University of Michigan Press had no editors willing to bring this collection up to a reasonable standard of engaging literary fiction. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las seriesNative American Series-MSU Press (January 2000)
This collection of short fiction from Mohawk writer Maurice Kenny pushes us to explore truth or what we may perceive as truth, showing us different truths: truth of character, natural truth, everyday truth. "Tortured Skins and Other Fictions," fourteen in number, form a cohesive study of characters and the anxiety provoking landscapes they inhabitseemingly idyllic settings are inverted, becoming corrupt backdrops for slaughter and destructiona broad metaphor for the relationships between the natives of this continent and its later colonizers. The bear, as a trickster figure, resurfaces in various guises, various "'skins," throughout the pieces, confronting oblivious characters with their relationships to their worlds. These stories reflect today's world, merging its preoccupations of pop culture and paranormal occurrences. with the long oral tradition motif of animals existing as teachers with sometimes dubious methodsthe "X-Files" colliding with contemporary Native American fiction." No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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