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<p>Gerald Vizenor, the most prolific Native American writer of this century, has produced more than twenty-five books in genres as varied as fiction, journalism, haiku, and literary theory. The first book-length study devoted to this important author, Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition lays the groundwork essential for understanding his complex work.</p> <p>Kimberly M. Blaeser begins with an examination of Vizenor’s concept of Native American oral culture and his unique incorporation of oral tradition in the written word. She then explicates Vizenor’s method of linking the traditional oral aesthetic with reader-response theories and details Vizenor’s efforts to produce a form of writing that resists static meaning, involves the writer in the creation of the literary moment, and invites political action. She also explores the place of Vizenor’s work within the larger contexts of contemporary tribal literature, Native American scholarship, and critical theory.</p> <p>Individual chapters examine Vizenor’s renditions of the Native American trickster figure in his fiction; analyze his employment of a network of critical, social, and literary subtexts within the larger text; a

Author

Kimberly M. Blaeser

Publisher

University Of Oklahoma Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780806143163

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities