Criticism

Compton, Valerie. Review of Green Grass, Running Water, by Thomas King. Quill & Quire 59, No. 3 (March 1993): 46.

Favorable assessment of Green Grass, Running Water in which Compton lauds King's revisionist approach to history and incorporation of Native oral traditions.

Davenport, Gary. "Fiction and the Furniture of Consciousness." The Sewanee Review C, No. 2 (Spring 1992): 323-30.

Applauds King's use of comedy and evocation of place in Medicine River.

Howells, Coral Ann. "Imagining Native." Canadian Literature, Nos. 124-25 (Spring-Summer 1990): 307-08.

Positive review of The Native in Literature. Howells offers analyses of several of the pieces in this collection, noting: "The essays engage issues of the representation of the Native (Indians, Inuit, Australian Aborigines) in colonial and post-colonial discourse, the majority of them exploring images of natives and native cultures encoded in white writing (from explorers' narratives to post-modernist fiction) although several focus on native storytelling traditions and one on contemporary Inuit literature."

Meredith, Howard. Review of The Native in Literature, by Thomas King, Cheryl Calver, and Helen Hoy, eds. World Literature Today 63, No. 4 (Autumn 1989): 723-24.

Favorable assessment of The Native in Literature. Meredith writes that this "is the first major work of literary analysis to deal with American Indian and Inuit subject matter in a Canadian context."