CRITICISM

Fee, Margery, and Jane Flick. “Coyote Pedagogy: Knowing Where the Borders Are in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water.” Canadian Literature 161-162 (summer-autumn 1999): 131-39.

Fee and Flick analyze the different borders present in King's Green Grass, Running Water and how crossing those borders is necessary to understand the novel's humor.

Goldman, Marlene. “Mapping and Dreaming: Native Resistance in Green Grass, Running Water.” Canadian Literature 161-162 (summer-autumn 1999): 18-41.

Goldman traces King's use of maps and dreaming as a means of resistance in Green Grass, Running Water.

Kenton, Linda M. Review of Coyote Sings to the Moon, by Thomas King. School Library Journal 48, no. 10 (October 2002): 115.

Kenton offers a mixed assessment of Coyote Sings to the Moon, noting that “[t]he illustrations … cannot overcome the weaknesses of the plot.”

King, Thomas, and Peter Gzowski. “Peter Gzowski Interviews Thomas King on Green Grass, Running Water.” Canadian Literature 161-162 (summer-autumn 1999): 65-76.

King discusses his symbolic use of characters and myth in Green Grass, Running Water.

Lutz, Hartmut, editor. Contemporary Challenges: Conversations with Canadian Native Authors. Saskatoon: Fifth House Publishers, 1991, 276 p.

Lutz presents a series of interviews with a selection of Canadian Native authors, including King.

Matchie, Thomas. “Writing about Native Americans: The Native and the Non-Native Critic/Author.” Midwest Quarterly 42, no. 3 (spring 2001): 320-33.

Matchie examines how Native Americans have been portrayed in literature, particularly in the work of Thomas King.

Ridington, Robin. “Coyote's Cannon: Sharing Stories with Thomas King.” American Indian Quarterly 22, no. 3 (summer 1998): 343-62.

Ridington explores the role of the Coyote in Green Grass, Running Water.

Additional coverage of King's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 144; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 95; Contemporary Canadian Authors, Vol. 1; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 89; Contemporary Novelists, Ed. 7; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 175; DISCovering Authors: Canadian Edition; DISCovering Authors Modules: Multicultural; Literature Resource Center; Native North American Literature; and Something about the Author, Vol. 96.