Coyote's Cannon: Sharing Stories with Thomas King

Abstract

submitted to organizers of conference): The oral traditions of many First Nations code information in a way that is analogous to the distribution of visual information in a holographic image. Each story, like each piece of a hologram, contains information about the entire structure of which it is a part. Stories function as metonyms; parts that stand for wholes. Stories in the First Nations traditions I am familiar with are part of a highly contextualized discourse that assumes familiarity with biography and shared experience. First Nations novelist Thomas King replicates genre conventions 352 American Indian Quarterly/Summer 1998/Vol. 22, No. 3 This content downloaded from 207.46.13.191 on Mon, 01 Aug 2016 04:51:40 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms