Gerald Vizenor
Biographic Data
| ID | 454772 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerald Vizenor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerald |
| FAMILY NAME | Vizenor |
| SIGNATURE | VIZENOR G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Native American Health Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Presence in the Book
Presence in the Book Gerald Vizenor (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Native dream songs are forever in the clouds, and once more the empire wars are underway. The lilies and daffodils are in bloom, and at the same time we hark back to the stories of shamans that war never ends, since evil, envy, greed, and predatory vengeance never end. The last empire war started with a royal murder, and the next world war of resentments and reve…
Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture
Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture is an innovative work that freshly approaches the concept of race as a social factor made concrete in popular forms, such as film, television, and music. The essays collectively push past the reaffirmation of static conceptions of identity, authenticity, or conventional interpretations of stereotypes and bridge the intertextual gap between theories of community enactment and cultural representation. T…
Survivance and Liberty: The Turns and Stays of Native Sovereignty
Survivance and Liberty: The Turns and Stays of Native Sovereignty
Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven (1978), Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate (1980) and John Sayles’ Matewan (1987) differ greatly in their cinematographic and aesthetic projects. Yet all share a similar calling into question of the pastoral ideal as the cradle of the American cultural and political imagination. Operating on vastly different scales and production contexts, the three movies nonetheless converge towards a rehabilitation of the American …
The White Earth Nation: Ratification of a Native Democratic Constitution
The White Earth Nation of Anishinaabeg Natives ratified a new constitution in 2009, the first indigenous democratic constitution, on a reservation in Minnesota. Many Native constitutions were written by the federal government, and with little knowledge of the people and cultures. The White Earth Nation set out to create a constitution that reflected its own culture. The resulting document provides a clear Native perspective on sovereignty, indepe…
Native Americans and First Nations: A Transnational Challenge
Native Liberty: Natural Reason and Cultural Survivance
Native Narratives
George Morrison: Anishinaabe Expressionist Artist
George MorrisonAnishinaabe Expressionist Artist Gerald Vizenor (bio) George Morrison was an eminent expressionist painter with a singular romantic vision and an erudite sense of natural reason and liberty. He created an elusive shimmer of "endless space," the color and eternal motion of nature. The horizons he painted were inspired by nature and lightened by his watch and visual memories of Lake Superior near the Grand Portage Reservation in Minn…
Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57
Hiroshima Bugi is an ingenious kabuki novel that begins in the ruins of the Atomic Bomb Dome, a new Rashomon Gate. Ronin Browne, the humane peace contender, is the hafu orphan son of Okichi, a Japanese boogie-woogie dancer, and Nightbreaker, an Anishinaabe from the White Earth Reservation who served as an interpreter for General Douglas MacArthur during the first year of the occupation in Japan. Ronin draws on samurai and native traditions to con…
Postindian Conversations
Postindian Conversations. Gerald Vizenor and A. Robert Lee. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1999. 189 pages. $35 cloth. Get access Postindian Conversations.. Gerald Vizenor A. Robert Lee. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1999. 189 pages. $35.00 cloth. Bette S. Weidman Bette S. Weidman Queens College of CUNY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 27, Issue 3, September 2002, Pages 225–228, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Imagic moments: Native identities and literary modernity
Fugitive Poses: Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence
Native peoples today are best known through their fugitive poses: textual and graphic depictions steeped in a modernist aesthetic of romantic victimry, tragedy, and nostalgia. In Fugitive Poses Gerald Vizenor argues that such representations celebrate the absence rather than the presence of the Native
Hotline Healers: An Almost Browne Novel
In this collection of eleven linked stories, Gerald Vizenor brings back one of his most popular characters, Almost Browne, in full trickster force. Born in the back of a hatchback, almost on the White Earth Reservation, the crossblood storyteller sells blank books - some autographed (by him) with such names as Isaac Singer, Geoffrey Chaucer, N. Scott Momaday, and Jesus Christ; projects laser demons over the reservation; lectures in the Transethni…
Shadow Distance: A Gerald Vizenor Reader
Author of The Heirs of Columbus, Hotline Healers, Interior Landscapes, Crossbloods, and numerous other works, Gerald Vizenor is one of the century's most important and prolific Native American writers. Drawing on the best work of an acclaimed career, Shadow Distance: A Gerald Vizenor Reader reveals the wide range of his imagination and the evolution of his central themes. This compelling collection includes not only selections from Vizenor's inno…
Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance
Journal Article Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance Get access Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance. By Vizenor Gerald. (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1994. 191 pp. Index. $30.00, cloth; $13.95, paper.) James B. LaGrand James B. LaGrand Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 1, Spring 1996, Page 87, ht…
Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance
Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literatures
Focusing on published works by novelists N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, D'Arcy McNickle, Louise Erdrich, Gerald Vizenor, and other Native American authors, the critical essays in this collection examine translation and representation in tribal literatures, comic and tragic world views, and trickster discourse
Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance
Landfill Meditations: Crossblood Stories
Dead Voices: Natural Agonies in the New World. A Novel
Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance
Dead Voices: Natural Agonies in the New World
Casino Coups
On the Translation of Native American Literatures
Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance
On the Translation of Native American Literatures
Trickster Discourse
The Ruins of Representation: Shadow Survivance and the Literature of Dominance
The postmodern turn in literature and cultural studies is an invitation to the ruins of representation; the invitation uncovers traces of tribal survivance, trickster discourse, and the remanence of intransitive shadows. The traces are shadows, shadows, shadows, the natural coherence of archshadows, visions, and memories in heard stories. The postmodern shadows counter paracolonial histories, dickered testimonies, simulations, and the banal essen…
Bone Courts: The Rights and Narrative Representation of Tribal Bones
I SHI, THE LAST SURVIVOR of his tribe, died seventy years ago in a museum at the University of California. Alfred Kroeber was in New York at the time and wrote to the curator of the museum, If there is any talk about the interests of science, say for me that science can go to hell. propose to stand by our friends, the distinguished anthropologist continued. Besides, I cannot believe that any scientific value is materially involved. We have hundre…
Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance
The White Earth Nation: Ratification of a Native Democratic Constitution
The White Earth Nation of Anishinaabeg Natives ratified a new constitution in 2009, the first indigenous democratic constitution, on a reservation in Minnesota. Many Native constitutions were written by the federal government, and with little knowledge of the people and cultures. The White Earth Nation set out to create a constitution that reflected its own culture. The resulting document provides a clear Native perspective on sovereignty, indepe…
The Trickster of Liberty: Tribal Heirs to a Wild Baronage
The Heirs of Columbus
If you must read a book on declared the Los Angeles Times in its review of The Heirs of Columbus, this is the one. Gerald Vizenor's novel reclaims the story of Chrisopher on behalf of Native Americans by declaring the explorer himself to be a descendent of early Mayans and follows the adventures of his modern-day, mixedblood heirs as they create a fantastic tribal nation. The genetic heirs of Christopher meet annually at the Stone Tavern at the h…
The People Named the Chippewa: Narrative Histories
Native American Literature
Fugitive Poses: Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence
Native peoples today are best known through their fugitive poses: textual and graphic depictions steeped in a modernist aesthetic of romantic victimry, tragedy, and nostalgia. In Fugitive Poses Gerald Vizenor argues that such representations celebrate the absence rather than the presence of the Native
Shadow Distance: A Gerald Vizenor Reader
Author of The Heirs of Columbus, Hotline Healers, Interior Landscapes, Crossbloods, and numerous other works, Gerald Vizenor is one of the century's most important and prolific Native American writers. Drawing on the best work of an acclaimed career, Shadow Distance: A Gerald Vizenor Reader reveals the wide range of his imagination and the evolution of his central themes. This compelling collection includes not only selections from Vizenor's inno…
Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance
Journal Article Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance Get access Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance. By Vizenor Gerald. (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1994. 191 pp. Index. $30.00, cloth; $13.95, paper.) James B. LaGrand James B. LaGrand Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 1, Spring 1996, Page 87, ht…
Native American Indian Literature: Critical Metaphors of the Ghost Dance
Gerald Vizenor, Native American Indian Literature: Critical Metaphors of the Ghost Dance, World Literature Today, Vol. 66, No. 2, From This World: Contemporary American Indian Literature (Spring, 1992), pp. 223-227
Crossbloods, Bone Courts, Bingo and Other Reports
Touchwood: A Collection of Ojibway Prose
Sacred Reversals: "Trickster in Gerald Vizenor's "Earthdivers: Tribal Narratives on Mixed Descent
ARTHDIVERS, says Gerald Vizenor at beginning of Earthdivers: Tribal Narratives on Mixed Descent (1981), is imaginative metaphor. The vehicle for this metaphor is a culture hero (sometimes trickster, like Wenebojo Ojibwe story Vizenor cites his preface) found extensively native American myth. This figure directs animals to dive into great flood until one finally returns with grains of dirt from which hero magically creates present earth mass. The …
Dennis of Wounded Knee
Firewater Labels and Methodologies
PLAIN JOHNSON HUNKERS over the wads of paper labels he peeled from seven bottles of cheap beer deep in cigarette smoke at the back of the bar. From a short distance he seems to be folded in the narrow booth, at the neck and stomach, a racial monad with swollen fingers. His bare elbows are thick, burnished from the tilt of his trunk, but there is nothing plain about this mixedblood tribal man who resisted social conversion in a foster home and sav…
An Interview with Gerald Vizenor
Clarke A. Chambers interviews Gerald Vizenor, professor for the Department of American Indian Studies
Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart
Journal Article Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart. Gerald Vizenor. St. Paul: Truck Press, 1978. 241 pp. $5.95 paper. [Address: Truck Distribution, P.O. Box 4544, Industrial Station, St. Paul, MN 55104.] Get access Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart. Gerald Vizenor. St. Paul: Truck Press, 1978.241 pp. $5.95 paper. [Address: Truck Distribution, P.O. Box 4544, Industrial Station, St. Paul, MN 55104.] A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff Univ…
Dennis of Wounded Knee
Firewater Labels and Methodologies
PLAIN JOHNSON HUNKERS over the wads of paper labels he peeled from seven bottles of cheap beer deep in cigarette smoke at the back of the bar. From a short distance he seems to be folded in the narrow booth, at the neck and stomach, a racial monad with swollen fingers. His bare elbows are thick, burnished from the tilt of his trunk, but there is nothing plain about this mixedblood tribal man who resisted social conversion in a foster home and sav…
The People Named the Chippewa: Narrative Histories
Native American Literature
Sacred Reversals: "Trickster in Gerald Vizenor's "Earthdivers: Tribal Narratives on Mixed Descent
ARTHDIVERS, says Gerald Vizenor at beginning of Earthdivers: Tribal Narratives on Mixed Descent (1981), is imaginative metaphor. The vehicle for this metaphor is a culture hero (sometimes trickster, like Wenebojo Ojibwe story Vizenor cites his preface) found extensively native American myth. This figure directs animals to dive into great flood until one finally returns with grains of dirt from which hero magically creates present earth mass. The …
History and the Imagination: "Gerald Vizenor's "The People Named the Chippewa
Woodland Word Warrior: An Introduction to the Works of Gerald Vizenor
Woodland Word Warrior: An Introduction to Gerald Vizenor with a Bibliography of His Work Get access A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff University of Illinois at Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 13, Issue 1-2, June 1986, Pages 13–44, https://doi.org/10.2307/467223 Published: 01 June 1986
The People Named Chippewa: Narrative Histories
Bone Courts: The Rights and Narrative Representation of Tribal Bones
I SHI, THE LAST SURVIVOR of his tribe, died seventy years ago in a museum at the University of California. Alfred Kroeber was in New York at the time and wrote to the curator of the museum, If there is any talk about the interests of science, say for me that science can go to hell. propose to stand by our friends, the distinguished anthropologist continued. Besides, I cannot believe that any scientific value is materially involved. We have hundre…
The Trickster of Liberty: Tribal Heirs to a Wild Baronage
Journal Article The Trickster of Liberty: Tribal Heirs to a Wild Baronage. Gerald Vizenor. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1988. xviii + 158 pages. $19.95. Get access The Trickster of Liberty: Tribal Heirs to a Wild Baronage. Gerald Vizenor. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1988. xviii + 158 pages. $19.95. Franchot Bollinger Franchot Bollinger University of Cincinnati Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sch…
Trickster Discourse
The Trickster of Liberty: Tribal Heirs to a Wild Baronage
Minnesota Chippewa: Woodland Treaties to Tribal Bingo
The White Earth Reservation has become a dubious measure of rapacious federal policies that dominated the land and dislocated communal cultures at the same time. The first part of this essay considers mutable racial attitudes at the turn of the last century and reviews institutional strains from treaties to allotments and bingo; the second part is a presentation of tribal religious and educational experiences from shamans to boarding schools and …
The Fencepost Chronicles
The Trickster of Liberty
Touchwood: A Collection of Ojibway Prose
The Fast Men
Trickster Discourse
The Trickster of Liberty: Tribal Heirs to a Wild Baronage
Crossbloods, Bone Courts, Bingo and Other Reports
The Heirs of Columbus
Manifest Manners: The Long Gaze of Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus was denied beatification because of his avarice, baseness, and malevolent discoveries. He landed much lower in tribal stories and remembrance than he has in foundational histories and representations of colonialism; nonetheless, several centuries later his mistaken missions were uncovered anew and commemorated as entitlements in a constitutional democracy
Native American Indian Literature: Critical Metaphors of the Ghost Dance
Gerald Vizenor, Native American Indian Literature: Critical Metaphors of the Ghost Dance, World Literature Today, Vol. 66, No. 2, From This World: Contemporary American Indian Literature (Spring, 1992), pp. 223-227
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