Gerald Vizenor: Texts and Contexts (review)

Lacan, Derrida, Bataille, among other "postmodern" thinkers, take their places (in essays by Madsen, Snyder, Moore, and Shanley, in particular) alongside Vizenor's Japanese influences (Lee, Velie, Moore), a two-hundred-year history of American satire (Br einig), elaborations of the co...

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Published in:Studies in American Indian Literatures 2011, Vol.23 (4), p.136-140
Main Author: Stirrup, David
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Aesthetic Education
Canadian Literature
Erdrich, Louise
Essays
Fathers
Native studies
Nouns
Postmodernism
Tribes
Vizenor, Gerald Robert (1934- )
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Summary:Lacan, Derrida, Bataille, among other "postmodern" thinkers, take their places (in essays by Madsen, Snyder, Moore, and Shanley, in particular) alongside Vizenor's Japanese influences (Lee, Velie, Moore), a two-hundred-year history of American satire (Br einig), elaborations of the connections between Father Meme and holocaust writing (Lee and Shanley), and Vizenor's commitment to questions of education (LaLonde) and repatriation (Heistern). An interview with more bite might see Vizenor expanding on his disdain for "commercial literature, published by slippery . . . editors" (272), or elaborating the tensions between different constituencies at the Constitution Conventions discussed with clarity in his own chapter: "I had my doubts about how the diverse views of forty delegates - and some delegates espoused notions of racial separatism - could be reconciled . . ."
ISSN:0730-3238
1548-9590