In the article "Subverting the "Mainstream" Paradigm through magical realism in Thomas King's Green Grass Running Water” Ibis Gômez-Vega is arguing the use of magical realism - surreal elements incorporated into a realist narrative - in Green Grass Running Water is to “subvert the hegemonic paradigms that inform America culture” about Native Americans (1). Her thesis is portrayed though the creation stories and the four old Indian’s role in the novel. Gômez-Vega evaluates the trickster narrative of the story and how it acts as a “voice of reason in a world” (1-2). The article describes the changing of the creation stories and the relation of magical realism and Native culture. She justifies King’s use of “intertextuality and native myths to
