According to Kimberly Blaeser, Gerald Vizenor is "the most prolific
Native American writer of the twentieth century," and Christopher
Teuton rightfully calls him "one of the most innovative and
brilliant American Indian writers" today." With more than 40 books
of fiction, poetry, life writing, essays, and criticism, his impact
on literary and cultural theory, and specifically on Indigenous
Studies, has been unparalleled. This volume brings together some of
the most distinguished experts on Vizenor's work from Europe and
the United States. Original contributions by Gerald Vizenor
himself, as well as by Kimberly M. Blaeser, A. Robert Lee, Kathryn
Shanley, David L. Moore, Chris LaLonde, Alexandra Ganser, Cathy
Covell Waegner, Sabine N. Meyer, Kristina Baudemann, and Billy J.
Stratton provide fresh perspectives on theoretical concepts such as
trickster discourse, postindian survivance, totemic associations,
Native presence, artistic irony, and transmotion, and explore his
lasting literary impact from Darkness in St. Louis Bearheart to his
most recent novels and collections of poetry, Shrouds of White
Earth, Chair of Tears, Blue Ravens, and Favor of Crows. The
thematic sections focus on "Truth Games': Transnationalism,
Transmotion, and Trickster Poetics;" "'Chance Connections': Memory,
Land, and Language;" and "'The Many Traces of Ironic Traditions':
History and Futurity," documenting that Vizenor's achievements are
sociocultural and political as much they are literary in effect.
With their emphasis on transdisciplinary, transnational research,
the critical analyses, close readings, and theoretical outlooks
collected here contextualize Gerald Vizenor's work within different
literary traditions and firmly place him within the American canon.
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