Postindian Conversations

by Vizenor, Gerald Robert; Lee, A. Robert

• ISBN13: 9780803296282
• ISBN10: 0803296282
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

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 pre-eminent 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. His edited works include Shadow Distance: A Gerald Vizenor Reader.

Author Biography

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. His edited works include Shadow Distance: A Gerald Vizenor Reader.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(18)
A. Robert Lee
Postindian Memories	19	(38)
Autobiographies	57	(8)
Haiku Scenes	65	(6)
Scripts and Plays	71	(8)
Discursive Narratives	79	(16)
Bearheart Chronicles	95	(20)
Griever in China	115	(12)
Tricksters of Liberty	127	(10)
Games of Dead Voices	137	(8)
Almost Browne Stories	145	(8)
Visionary Sovereignty	153	(28)
Selected References	181