Gerald Robert Vizenor, Author Wesleyan University Press $22.95 (182p) ISBN 978-0-8195-5304-1
Almost Browne is perfectly ordinary ""in the native sense of natural reason."" In other words, Almost (so named because he was born in the back of a car ""almost"" on his tribe's reservation) is a trickster. In Native American writer Vizenor's (Dead
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Gerald Robert Vizenor, Author Illinois State University $15.95 (238p) ISBN 978-0-932511-09-6
This ambitious novel was inspired by the 16th century Chinese epic The Journey to the West, about the antics of a monkey traveling in India. Vizenor (The People Named Chippewa) places his Native American counterpart of the mythological monkey in...
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Gerald Robert Vizenor, Author University of Minnesota Press $19.95 (158p) ISBN 978-0-8166-1629-9
In his superbly written satirical tales, Vizenor draws readers into the world of the Native American tribal trickster, ``a warrior on a coin that never lands twice on the same side.'' The author imaginatively recounts the escapades of a family of...
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Gerald Robert Vizenor, Author University of Minnesota Press $0 (254p) ISBN 978-0-8166-1851-4
While Vizenor's ( Griever ) long-out-of-print peculiar fantasy generally draws more from Indian mythology than from realism, some of its material (such as a reference to Bernadette Devlin) has become dated since its original publication in 1978 as...
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Gerald Robert Vizenor, Author University of Minnesota Press $0 (322p) ISBN 978-0-8166-1853-8
Not even a worthwhile subject and Vizenor's ( Bearheart ; see review below) occasional audacity overcome the lack of editing that thrusts this essay collection into mediocrity. ``Crossbloods and the Chippewa,'' one of the few recent works, is a...
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Gerald Robert Vizenor, Author University of Minnesota Press $23.5 (279p) ISBN 978-0-8166-1848-4
Growing up as a mixed-blood Minnesota Chippewa Indian, novelist-poet Vizenor faced racism and personal traumas. His father, at age 26, was fatally knifed; his mother, who periodically left him with foster families, remarried an alcoholic who beat...
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Gerald Robert Vizenor, Author Wesleyan University Press $22.95 (198p) ISBN 978-0-8195-5241-9
Stone Columbus, the famous explorer's heir and namesake, is a Mississippi bingo tycoon and radio talk show host; he's part Mayan, as, he claims, was Christopher Columbus. In 1992 Stone and his listeners establish Point Assinika, a chunk of the...
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Gerald Robert Vizenor, Author University of Oklahoma Press $16.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-8061-2427-8
This schematic satire pits Native Americans against naturalized ones, much to the detriment of the latter. Divorced from nature, Vizenour fictionally contends, non-Indians have lost the stories that liberate the mind and hold the world together; now
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Gerald Vizenor. Univ. of Nebraska, $16.95 trade paper (152p) ISBN 978-0-8032-3840-4
Vizenor's latest (after Shrouds of White Earth) is an ironist's account of the pretense of modern academia as seen through the lens of the Native American Indian trickster tradition. The narrative has the semblance of novelistic unity, but each of...
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