Understanding Gerald Vizenor

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-1-57003-856-3
Verlag: The University of South Carolina Press

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 130 mm x 180 mm, Gewicht: 300 g

Reihe: Understanding Contemporary American Literature

This book offers an introduction to the radical Native American writer's complex vocabulary and vision. Winner of the 1988 American Book Award for his novel ""Griever: An American Monkey King in China"", Gerald Vizenor is a radical, even revolutionary, voice among contemporary Native American writers. Deborah L. Madsen offers a comprehensive overview of Vizenor's work in all literary genres as she explores the themes, images, and stylistic devices that define Vizenor's challenging and significant body of work. Madsen begins by addressing the key contexts in which Vizenor's work may be interpreted: his biography, the Anishinabe tribal context of his thought, and the contemporary postmodern intellectual environment within which he writes. Madsen also explores her subject's neologisms, the complex lexicon he invents to convey his view of Native America. From there she highlights Vizenor's achievements in each of the major literary genres in which he writes - journlaism, tribal history, cultural criticism, poetry, drama, and fiction - focusing on representative texts in each instance to provide detailed readings of Vizenor's distinctive style and language.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Madsen, Deborah L.

Über Autor(innen)

Deborah L. Madsen is a professor of American literature and culture at the University of Geneva and the author or editor of fifteen previous books, including Gerald Vizenor: Texts and Contexts. She coedits with Vizenor the SUNY Press book series Native Traces.