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In this, his classic first book of essays, Vizenor presents a stark but vital view of reservation life in the late 1960s and early 1970s, a collection that Studies in American Indian Literatures called memorable portraits of real people who defied yet finally were overcome by the dominant society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocusing on the people of the northern reservations, particularly the White Earth Reservation where he grew up, Vizenor puts a human face on those desperate and politically charged times that saw frequent government intervention and the emergence of the American Indian Movement (AIM). In his trademark style, Vizenor juxtaposes these snapshots of contemporary life against images and dream sequences from Anishinabe folktales and ceremonies. As the Chronicle of Higher Education has observed, Vizenor's paradoxical achievement has been to garner a reputation as an innovative avant-garde writer by embracing, and revitalizing, ancient oral storytelling traditions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his new introduction, composed especially for this edition, Vizenor reflects on the changes that have occurred on the reservations in the last three decades and updates the lives of this fascinating and various cast of characters.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50365219438865,"sku":"CIN0873514009G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51009098285329,"sku":"NIN9780873514002","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0873514009.jpg?v=1751234243"},{"product_id":"post-indian-conversations-book-gerald-robert-vizenor-9780803246669","title":"Post-Indian Conversations","description":"Praise for Gerald Vizenor: \"Vizenor has been called America's Gabriel Garcia M rquez.\" - \"Library Journal\". \"Vizenor's language roils and tumbles through meanings and shades of meanings.\" - \"Choice\". \"Vizenor keeps us off balance with his subversive humor and otherworldly pyrotechnics.\" - \"Booklist\". \"A masterful storyteller.\" - \"Publishers Weekly\". \"Postindian Conversations\" is the first collection of in-depth interviews with Gerald Vizenor, one of the most powerful and provocative voices in the Native world today. These lively conversations with the preeminent novelist and cultural critic reveal much about the man, his literary creations, and his critical perspectives on important issues affecting Native peoples in the late twentieth century. Readers gain crucial insights into the genesis of Vizenor's fiction and its imagery, characters, and plots. The book also casts new light on his sometimes controversial ideas about contemporary Native identity, politics, economics, scholarship, and literature. These conversations are particularly valuable for their clarification of concepts and terminology central to Vizenor's work. Simultaneously scholarly and autobiographical, probing and teasing, these moving, humorous, unsettling, and always enlightening conversations will be sure to delight and challenge the many who enjoy Gerald Vizenor's writings. Gerald Vizenor is a professor of American Studies and Native American literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the American Book Award winner \"Griever: An American Monkey King in China\". A. Robert Lee is a professor of American literature at Nihon University in Tokyo. His books include \"Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America\". 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The heirs' plan to reclaim their heritage enrages the government and inspires the tribal nations in a comic tale of mythic proportions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVizenor is a mixedblood Chippewa who writes fiction in the trickster mode of Native American tradition, using humor to challenge received ideas and subvert the status quo. In The Heirs of Columbus he reveals not only how Indians have staved off the tidal wave of assimilation, noted the San Francisco Chronicle, but also how, through humor and persistence, they sometimes reverse the direction of cultural appropriation and, in the process, transform the alien values imposed on them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVizenor understands the wilder, irrational, half-mad parts of the Discoverer's soul as few people ever have, noted Kirkpatrick Sale in the Nation; Columbus is appropriated here in an entirely new way, made to be an Indian in service to his Indian descendents. 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