Read, listen, tell : indigenous stories from Turtle Island

McCall, Sophie, 1969- (Added Author). Gaertner, David, 1979- (Added Author). Reder, Deanna, 1963- (Added Author). Hill, Gabrielle L'Hirondelle, 1979- (Added Author).

Summary: "The goal of Read, Listen, Tell is not only to share with readers an incredibly diverse collection of Indigenous stories, but also to transform methods of reading by bringing into the forefront practices in interpreting texts that are grounded in Indigenous knowledge and scholarship. Each of the chapters offers particular strategies for reading the stories in multiple ways, encouraging readers to expand the scope of the "short story" by including a broad range of story forms. The chapters consist of five to seven stories, accompanied by a critical essay that helps contextualize some of the questions and issues the stories raise."--

Record details

ISBN: 9781771123006 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xvii, 390 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2017.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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The truth about stories is ... stories are all that we are: The way of the sword / Dawn Dumont ; King of the tie-snakes / Craig Womack ; As it was in the beginning / E. Pauline Johnson ; Deer Woman / Paula Gunn Allen ; "You'll never believe what happened" is always a great way to start / Thomas King -- Land, homeland, territory: Like some old story / Kimberly Blaeser ; Borders / Thomas King ; Rita Hayworth Mexicana / M.E. Wakamatsu ; An Athabasca story / Warren Cariou ; "The Oka crisis" from The five hundred years of resistance comic book / Gord Hill ; Goodbye, Snauq / Lee Maracle -- Reinventing the enemy's language: The son who came back from the United States / Sixto Canul ; Ghost trap / Gloria Anzaldúa ; I'm not a witch, I'm a healer! / Joel Torres Sánchez ; Aunt Parnetta's electric blisters / Diane Glancy ; Land speaking / Jeanette Armstrong -- Cree knowledge embedded in stories: Chapter 14 from Kiss of the Fur Queen / Tomson Highway ; Excerpt from Darkness calls / Steven Keewatin Sanderson ; I'm not an Indian / Solomon Ratt ; The republic of tricksterism / Paul Seesequasis ; Delivery / Lisa Bird-Wilson ; Rolling Head's grave yard / Louise Bernice Halfe ; Excerpt from "Einew Kis-Kee-Tum-Awin (Indigenous people's knowledge)" / Harold Cardinal -- Each word has a story of its own : story arcs and story cycles: Uinigumasuittuq = She Who Never Wants to Get Married / Alexina Kublu ; Summit with Sedna, the mother of sea beasts / Alootook Ipellie ; Beaded soles / Susan Power ; The Devil / Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin) ; Coyote and the people killer / Tania Willard ; Language and literature from a Pueblo Indian perspective / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Community, self, transformation: The toughest Indian in the world / Sherman Alexie ; The secret of Zutz'baläm / Isaías Hernández Isidro ; Devotion / Richard Van Camp ; Grandma and the wendigo / Sylvain Rivard ; Excerpt from Red : a Haida manga / Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas ; The boys who became a killer whale / Ellen Rice White -- Shifting perspectives: Never marry a Mexican / Sandra Cisneros ; Weegit discovers halibut hooks / Gordon Robinson ; The many lives of Anakajuttuq / Joe Panipakuttuk ; Excerpt from Wendy / Walter K. Scott ; Lullaby / Leslie Marmon Silko ; Notes on Leslie Marmon Silko's "Lullaby" : socially responsible criticism / Jo-Ann Episkenew -- Indigeous fantasy and SF: Tatterborn / Daniel Heath Justice ; Men on the moon / Simon Ortiz ; Father, son, holy rabbit / Stephen Graham Jones ; Terminal Avenue / Eden Robinson ; On Drowning pond / Allison Hedge Coke ; The space NDN's star map / L. Catherine Cornum.