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1、HugvísindasviðHowThomasKingUsesCoyoteinhisNovelGreenGrass,RunningWaterCanadianLiteratureRitgerðtilB.A.-prófsVenetaGeorgievaPetkovaMay2011HáskóliÍslandsHugvísindasviðCanadianLiteratureHowThomasKingUsesCoyoteinhisNovelGreenGrass,RunningWaterCanadianLiteratureRitgerðtilB.A.-prófsVenetaGeorgievaPet
2、kovaKt.:241179-2579Leiðbeinandi:AnnaJeevesMay2011IntroductionThomasKingisoneofthemostacknowledgedCanadianwritersandnovelists.ReferredtoasaNativewriterofGreek,GermanandCherokeedescent,KingwasborninCalifornia1943.(Schorchtix)HecompletedhisdoctoraldissertationonNativeAmericanliteratureattheUnivers
3、ityofUtah.AswellasteachingatboththeUniversitiesofGuelphandLethbridgeinCanada,Kinghaspublishedachildren’sbook,acollectionofshortstories,andthreenovels.AmongthemisGreenGrass,RunningWater,knownasanovelthat“developsacomplexsenseofwhatitmeanstobeaNativewriterwhocrossesallkindsofborders.”(Schorchtx)H
4、owever,oneofthemostprecisedescriptionsofKing’snovelistheonecomprisingthefollowingwords:“InGreenGrass,RunningWateranarratorandthetricksterCoyotepresideovertwolooselyinterwovenplots:onebasedonthemythofthecreationoftheworld,andonebasedonthequasi-realisticeventsonandnearaCanadianBlackfootreservatio
5、n.”(Bailey43)Anotherlookatthebookandthetitleitselfmakeitpossibletoconcludethatitisatitle,whichhasaspecialplaceinthehistoryoftheIndiantribesinNorthAmerica,becauseitwasoneofthemostneglectedpartinthetreatisecreatedbythenewsettlers.Thisisametaphor,afamouslinefromthecontractsthattheEuropeanssignedwi
6、ththeIndians.Butbesidesusedasametaphor,thissentencesymbolizesthatKing’sbookcountsonreaders’abilitytointerpretthesignsfromthemythologicalandrealisticworlds.ThemetaphorictitleofKing’snovelforeshadowsthatthemainthemesinhisbookaregoingtoplayaroundthetrickydefinitionsofrealandmythic,rightandwrong,ju
7、sticeandinjustice.ThesearethethemesthatareconnectedtothetricksterCoyote,asundertricksterheretheauthormeansthetraditionalfortheIndianstoriesherowhohadresistedagainsttheEuropeanculturalinfluenceandwhoseemstobetheconnectionbetweenthe
