| 词条 | Thomas King (novelist) |
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| name = Thomas King | image = Thomas King.JPG | caption = King in 2008 | pseudonym = Hartley GoodWeather | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1943|4|24}} | birth_place = Sacramento, California, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Writer, presenter, activist, academic | citizenship = United States, Canada (dual) | period = 1980s–present (as writer) | genre = Postmodern, trickster novel; comedy and drama script | subject = First Nations | movement = | notableworks = Medicine River; Green Grass, Running Water; The Truth about Stories | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = Order of Canada, 2004 | signature = | website = }}Thomas King, CM (born April 24, 1943) is an American-Canadian writer and broadcast presenter who most often writes about North America's First Nations.[1] Early life and educationThomas King, who was born in Sacramento, California in 1943, self-identifies as being of Cherokee, German, and Greek descent. King says his father left the family when the boys were very young, and that they were raised almost entirely by their mother.[2] In his series of Massey Lectures, eventually published as a book The Truth About Stories (2003), King tells that after their father's death, he and his brother learned that their father had two other families, neither of whom knew about the third.[2] As a child, King attended grammar school in Roseville, California, and both private Catholic and public high schools. After flunking out of Sacramento State University, he joined the U.S. Navy for a brief period of time before receiving a medical discharge for a knee injury. Following this King worked several jobs, including as an ambulance driver, bank teller, and photojournalist in New Zealand for three years. King eventually completed bachelor's and master's degrees from Chico State University in California. He moved to Utah, where he worked as a counselor for aboriginal students before completing a Ph.D. program in English at the University of Utah. His 1971 MA thesis was on film studies.[2] His 1986 PhD dissertation[3] was on Native Studies, one of the earliest of works to explore the oral storytelling tradition as literature.[6] Around this time, King became interested in aboriginal oral traditions and storytelling.[4] After moving to Canada in 1980, King taught Native Studies at the University of Lethbridge (Alberta) in the early 1980s. He also served as a faculty member of the University of Minnesota's American Indian Studies Department. He is currently an English professor at the University of Guelph (Ontario) and lives in Guelph. King was chosen to deliver the 2003 Massey Lectures, entitled The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative.[5] King was the first Massey lecturer of self-identifying aboriginal descent. King explored the Native experience in oral stories, literature, history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest in order to make sense of North America's relationship with its aboriginal peoples. ActivismKing has criticized policies and programs of both the United States and Canadian governments in many interviews and books.[5] He is worried about aboriginal prospects and rights in North America. He says that he fears that aboriginal culture, and specifically aboriginal land, will continue to be taken away from aboriginal peoples until there is nothing left for them at all. In his 2013 book The Inconvenient Indian, King says, "The issue has always been land. It will always be land, until there isn’t a square foot of land left in North America that is controlled by Native people."[6] King also discusses policies regarding aboriginal status. He noted that legislatures in the 1800s withdrew aboriginal status from persons who graduated from university or joined the army. King has also worked to identify North American laws that make it complicated to claim status in the first place, for example, the U.S. Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 or Canada's 1985 Bill C-31. Bill C-31 amended the Indian Act in 1985 to allow aboriginal women and their children to reclaim status, which the act had previously withdrawn if the woman married a non-status man. King explains that the amended act, though progressive for women who had lost their status, threatens the status of future generations because of its limitations.[5] WritingsKing has been writing novels, children's books, and collections of stories since the 1980s. His notable works include A Coyote Columbus Story (1992) and Green Grass, Running Water (1993) – both of which were nominated for a Governor General's Award (the former for children's literature, and the latter for fiction[4] – and The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America (2012), which won the 2014 RBC Taylor Prize.[13] King's writing style incorporates oral storytelling structures with traditional Western narrative. He writes in a conversational tone; for example, in Green Grass, Running Water, the narrator argues with some of the characters. In The Truth About Stories (2003), King addresses the reader as if in a conversation with responses. King uses a variety of anecdotes and humorous narratives while maintaining a serious message in a way that has been compared to the style of trickster legends in Native American culture. Within this story, King also integrates the recently popularized idea of turtles all the way down in an anecdote introducing this narrative, calling into the relevancy of this ideology in American and Native American history. His newest novel, A Matter of Malice, is slated for publication in 2019.[7] PoliticsIn April 2007 King announced that he would seek the New Democratic Party (NDP) nomination for Guelph district. On March 30, 2007, he was named the NDP candidate. NDP leader Jack Layton was present at the nomination meeting.[8] A by-election was called in the riding due to the resignation of incumbent Liberal Member of Parliament Brenda Chamberlain, effective April 7, 2008. Scheduled for September 8, 2008, the by-election was cancelled with the calling of the October 14, 2008 federal general election. King finished fourth behind Liberal candidate Frank Valeriote, Conservative candidate Gloria Kovach, and Green candidate Mike Nagy. Other workIn the 1990s, he served as story editor for Four Directions,[9] a CBC Television drama anthology series about First Nations which was held up by production and scheduling delays before finally airing in 1996.[10] He also wrote the teleplay "Borders", an adaptation of his own previously published short story, for the series.[10] From 1997 to 2000, King wrote and acted in a CBC radio show, The Dead Dog Café Comedy Hour, which featured a fictitious town and a fictitious radio program hosted by three Native American characters. Elements were adapted from his novel, Green Grass, Running Water. The broadcast was a political and social satire with dark humour and mocking stereotypes. In July 2007, King made his directorial debut with I'm Not The Indian You Had In Mind, a short film which he wrote.[11] Personal lifeHis partner is Helen Hoy, a professor emerita of English and Women's Studies at the University of Guelph. She has written a study, How Should I Read These? Native Women Writers in Canada (2001). He has three children, Christian (b. 1971), Benjamin (b. 1985) and Elizabeth (b. 1988). WorksBooks
Selected short storiesShort story collections are listed above.
Scripts
Awards and recognition
Electoral record{{Election box begin | title=Guelph - Canadian federal election, 2008}}{{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Frank Valeriote|18,977|32.22%|-6.17}}{{CANelec|CA|Conservative|Gloria Kovach |17,185|29.18%|-0.57}}{{CANelec|CA|Green|Mike Nagy |12,456|21.15%|+12.43}}{{CANelec|CA|NDP|Tom King |9,709|16.49%|-5.51}}{{CANelec|CA|Marijuana|Kornelis Kleverling|172 |0.27%|N/A}}{{CANelec|CA|Libertarian|Philip Bender|159|0.27%|N/A}}{{CANelec|CA|Communist|Drew Garvie|77|0.13%|-0.05}}{{CANelec|CA|AAEVPC|Karen Levenson|73|0.12%|N/A}}{{CANelec|XX|Independent|John Turmel|58|0.10%|N/A}}{{CANelec|CA|Marxist-Leninist|Manuel Couto|29|0.05%|-0.02}}{{End}}See also{{Portal|Native American culture |Children's literature |Canada}}
References1. ^Thomas King in The Canadian Encyclopedia. 2. ^[https://chico-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=01CALS_ALMA71403227810002901&context=L&vid=01CALS_CHI&search_scope=01CALS_CHI&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US "A catalog of 16 mm. educational and feature films based on the lives and works of forty American literary figures of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries"]. Retrieved November 4, 2018. 3. ^[https://utah-primoprod.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=UUU_ALMA21246387630002001&context=L&vid=UTAH&search_scope=EVERYTHING&tab=everything&lang=en_US "Inventing the Indian: White images, Native oral literature, and contemporary Native writers"]. Retrieved November 4, 2018. 4. ^1 2 "An Interview With Thomas King". Canadian Literature (canlit.ca). Retrieved April 7, 2014. 5. ^1 2 3 4 "The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative". Ideas. Massey Lectures 2003 (November 7). CBC Radio One (cbc.ca). Retrieved September 7, 2007. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100514033049/http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/massey/massey2003.html |date=May 14, 2010 }} 6. ^"Thomas King Asks: What do Whites Want?". Macleans. Retrieved April 7, 2014. 7. ^[https://www.cbc.ca/books/28-works-of-canadian-fiction-to-watch-for-in-spring-2019-1.4982303 "28 works of Canadian fiction to watch for in spring 2019"]. CBC Books, January 25, 2019. 8. ^"Tom King acclaimed as federal NDP candidate". The Fountain Pen. Guelph, Ontario. Retrieved September 7, 2007. 9. ^"Writer urges CBC to let natives tell their own stories". Toronto Star. November 20, 1993. 10. ^1 "CBC finally releases stirring aboriginal dramas". Ottawa Citizen. November 24, 1996. 11. ^"I'm Not the Indian You Had in Mind". National Screen Institute (nsi-canada.ca). March 2012. Retrieved June 16, 2012. 12. ^1 "Thomas King wins $25K RBC Taylor Prize for non-fiction". CBC News. March 10, 2014. 13. ^"Thomas King, Bev Sellars among finalists for 2014 Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature". Quill & Quire. September 3, 2014. 14. ^[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/thomas-king-wins-governor-generals-award-for-fiction/article21636001 "Thomas King wins Governor General's award for fiction"]. The Globe and Mail. November 18, 2014.
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