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Winner of the 1988 American Book Award for his novel An American Monkey King in China, Gerald Vizenor is a radical, even revolutionary, voice among of contemporary Native American writers. Deborah L. Madsen offers a comprehensive overview of Vizenor's work in all literary genres, including poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction, as she explores the themes, images, and stylistic devices that define Vizenor's challenging and significant body of work. In his critique of corporate greed and environmental devastation, of political incompetence and self-interest, and of the modern culture of simulation, celebrity and hype, Vizenor consistently proves himself to be unafraid to prod and provoke his audience. He can also be a difficult writer for new readers, due to his use of an idiosyncratic vocabulary and the ironic, oppositional, or deconstructive stance he adopts in texts that resist easy comprehension. Madsen offers here points of entrance for scholars, students, and general readers into the complex vocabulary and vision of Vizenor's work. Madsen begins by addressing the key contexts within which Vizenor's work can be his biography, the Anishinaabe tribal context of his thought, and t

Author

Madsen, Deborah L.

Publisher

Columbia: University of South Carolina Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781570038563

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Social Science, Humanities

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14