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Robin Ridington (essay date winter 2000)

SOURCE: Ridington, Robin. “Happy Trails to You: Contexted Discourse and Indian Removals in Thomas King's Truth and Bright Water.” Canadian Literature 167 (winter 2000): 89-107.

[In the following essay, Ridington offers an evaluation of the hidden discourse in Truth and Bright Water.]

BORDER CROSSINGS

In a paper called “Coyote Pedagogy: Knowing Where the Borders Are in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water,” Margery Fee and Jane Flick point out that, “There is no reader of this novel, except perhaps Thomas King, who is not outside some of its networks of cultural knowledge” (131). Fortunately, they point out, “every reader is also inside at least one network and can therefore work by analogy to cross borders into others” (131). King's third novel, Truth & Bright Water, challenges the reader's abilities at border crossing. Within a narrative set in...

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2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Craig S. Womack (review date spring 1992)
   2. Robert L. Berner (review date autumn 1993)
   3. William J. Scheick (review date fall-winter 1993)
   4. Denise Low (review date winter 1994)
   5. Parker Duchemin (review date January-February 1994)
   6. Marlene Goldman and Teresa Heffernan (review date winter 1995)
   7. Catherine Rainwater (review date summer 1996)
   8. Ron Welburn (review date summer 1996)
   9. Linda Lamont-Stewart (essay date September 1997)
   10. Carlton Smith (essay date summer 1998)
   11. Sharon M. Bailey (essay date winter 1999)
   12. Patricia Linton (essay date spring 1999)
   13. Blanca Chester (essay date summer-autumn 1999)
   14. Warren Cariou (review date December 1999)
   15. Robin Ridington (essay date winter 2000)
   16. James H. Cox (essay date spring 2000)
   17. Jennifer Andrews (review date spring 2001)
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