"I Lied All the Time": Trickster Discourse and Ethnographic Authority in "Crashing Thunder"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michelle Burnham
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 4, Autumn, 1998, pp. 469-484
Description
Contends that the authenticity of the autobiographical work, Crashing Thunder edited by Paul Radin, relies in large part on the circumspect confessions of the narrator, Sam Blowsnake, and should be approached as trickster discourse.