The trickster wink: storytelling and resistance in Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen

Submitted by Michele Fernanda (michele_fernandas@hotmail.com) on 2012-08-15T06:30:29Z No. of bitstreams: 1 THE TRICKSTER WINK - STORYTELLING AND RESISTANCE.pdf: 61815 bytes, checksum: 544eb7762616c264ae411a4817999505 (MD5)Made available in DSpace on 2012-08-15T06:30:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 THE TRICKSTER WINK - STORYTELLING AND RESISTANCE.pdf: 61815 bytes, checksum: 544eb7762616c264ae411a4817999505 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009This essay explores how Tomson Highway uses the narrative genre as a space to perform a speech act of resistance against colonialism through an approach that departs from contemporary discussions on genre theory and theories of storytelling. Highway´s novel Kiss of the Fur Queen reaffirms the process of adaptation that is intrinsic to Indigenous cultures and to the survival of the Trickster and promotes a healing experience through the recovery of Cree storytelling. John Frow’s concept of genre as a performative structure that shapes the world in the very process of putting it into speech contributes to the focus on Indigenous storytelling rather than on Western literary categories