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Synopsis
Tells the story of a group of tribal pilgrims who journey south toward freedom after the government invades their reservation to claim their sacred trees for fuel
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About the Author
Gerald Vizenor, the author of Woodarrows and other books, has gained recognition for his thoughtful portrayal of modern American Indian life. He has taught Native American literature and film at the University of Minnesota and the University of California, Berkeley.
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While Vizenor's ( Griever ) long-out-of-print peculiar fantasy generally draws more from Indian mythology than from realism, some of its material (such as a reference to Bernadette Devlin) has become dated since its original publication in 1978 as Darkness in Saint Louis: Bearheart . The backdrop is an America that has exhausted its oil supply and descended into chaos. Driven from their Minnesota home when the cedar trees Proude guarded are commandeered for fuel, Proude Cedarfair and his wife, Rosina, set out for New Mexico. On the way they gain assorted companions, including Benito Saint Plumero, who killed a man for love of a female park statue; Pio Wissakodewinini, who was punished for rape by being surgically changed into a woman; and Pure Gumption, a dog with healing powers. They meet dangers, such as the evil gambler, who wagers gasoline against any gamester's life; food fascists who carve up "witches" for restaurant fare; and a horde of people who, in the chemically poisoned environment, have been born crippled. Bestiality and necrophilia also appear in Vizenor's mythical tale, which may have been daring when first published, but now is puerile. Vizenor also wrote Crossbloods (see review above).
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- PublisherUniv Of Minnesota Press
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0816618526
- ISBN 13 9780816618521
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages272
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Used/Used This book is in very good conditionThe Chippewa writer Gerald Vizenor is at once a brilliant and evasive trickster figure. He is perhaps the supremacy ironist among American iIndian writers of the twentieth century. Bearheart has become an underground classic. First ed. published as: Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart. 1978. Seller Inventory # viz90
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Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine in Wraps: shows the mildest wear to the extremities; the hint of a crease at the upper corner of the front panel; the spine leans ever so slightly; a couple of barely discernible smudges at the upper fore-edge; else flawless; the binding is secure; the text clean. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing the mildest wear and minor, unobtrusive imperfections. Bright and clean. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8.5 x 5.55 x 0.55 inches) . Weight: 11.4 ounces. Second Edition [1990]; Third Printing (2001). A Limited Edition was published in 1978. University Press Paperback. Gerald Vizenor (born 1934) is a Native American writer and an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, White Earth Reservation. Vizenor has published collections of haiku, poems, plays, short stories, translations of traditional tribal tales, screenplays, and many novels. He is considered a foremost representative of the literary movement known as the Native American Renaissance, a flourishing of literature and art beginning in the mid-20th century. His first novel, Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart (1978) , later revised as Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles , brought him immediate attention. One of the few science fiction novels written by a Native American, it portrayed a procession of tribal pilgrims through a surreal, dystopian landscape of an America suffering an environmental apocalypse brought on by white greed for oil. Simultaneously postmodern and deeply traditional, Vizenor drew on poststructuralist theory and Anishinaabe trickster stories to portray a world in the grip of what he called "terminal creeds" belief systems incapable of change. In one of the most noted and controversial passages, the character Belladonna Darwin Winter-Catcher proclaims that Natives are better and purer than whites. She murdered by ingesting poisoned cookies, purportedly for her promoting racial separatism. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xiv, 254 pages Second Edition [1990]. A Limited Edition was published in 1978; 3rdPrinting (2001). Seller Inventory # 57882
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