Where Is the Voice Coming From? (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Rudy Wiebe
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Plot: Historical, metafiction
- Time of Work: The 1890's
- Setting: Prince Albert District, Saskatchewan Territory
- Principal Characters: The narrator, Almighty Voice (Jean-Baptiste)
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, Authors or writers, Escapes, Nineteenth century, Writing, Native Americans or American Indians, Death or dying, Canada or Canadians, Spiritualism, Truthfulness and falsehood, Theft, Historiography
- Locales: Saskatchewan, Canada
The Story
“Where Is the Voice Coming From?” raises the question of how an author can make a story tell the truth when basing his or her work on so-called facts that do not agree. The story is written in the narrator's voice, which may well be taken as the author's own voice, as he ponders the various historical traces of an event that occurred more than one hundred years ago.
A young Cree Indian, Jean-Baptiste, best known as Almighty Voice, is arrested for stealing and killing a stray cow owned by the U.S. government. He is held in the police guardroom at Duck Lake,...
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