Review
"A collection of interviews that offer crucial insight into Vizenor's long and complicated literary career. . . . The reader gets an intimate glimpse into Vizenor's thoughts on both his personal life and the experiences that influenced his literary career."-American Indian Quarterly
Book Description
Praise for Gerald Vizenor: "Vizenor has been called America's Gabriel Garcia M rquez." - "Library Journal". "Vizenor's language roils and tumbles through meanings and shades of meanings." - "Choice". "Vizenor keeps us off balance with his subversive humor and otherworldly pyrotechnics." - "Booklist". "A masterful storyteller." - "Publishers Weekly". "Postindian Conversations" is the first collection of in-depth interviews with Gerald Vizenor, one of the most powerful and provocative voices in the Native world today. These lively conversations with the preeminent novelist and cultural critic reveal much about the man, his literary creations, and his critical perspectives on important issues affecting Native peoples in the late twentieth century. Readers gain crucial insights into the genesis of Vizenor's fiction and its imagery, characters, and plots. The book also casts new light on his sometimes controversial ideas about contemporary Native identity, politics, economics, scholarship, and literature. These conversations are particularly valuable for their clarification of concepts and terminology central to Vizenor's work. Simultaneously scholarly and autobiographical, probing and teasing, these moving, humorous, unsettling, and always enlightening conversations will be sure to delight and challenge the many who enjoy Gerald Vizenor's writings. Gerald Vizenor is a professor of American Studies and Native American literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the American Book Award winner "Griever: An American Monkey King in China". A. Robert Lee is a professor of American literature at Nihon University in Tokyo. His books include "Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America". His edited works include "Shadow Distance: A Gerald Vizenor Reader".
