LOOSENING THE SEAMS: Interpretations of Gerald Vizenor.

A. Robert Lee is a British scholar previously at the University of Kent at Canterbury where he taught American Studies. He has been a frequent Visiting Professor in the USA, among others, at Northwestern University, The University of Colorado and the University of California at Berkeley. Currently he is Professor of American Literature, Nihon University, Tokyo. His publications include Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America (1998); eleven volumes in the Vision Press Critical Series, from Black Fiction: New Studies in the Afro-American Novel Since 1945 (1980) to William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Fiction (1990); Shadow Distance: A Gerald Vizenor Reader (1994) and, with Gerald Vizenor, Postindian Conversations (1999); and the essay-collections A Permanent Etcetera: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Post-War America (1993), Other Britain, Other British: Contemporary Multicultural Fiction (1995), (with W. M. Verhoeven) Making America/Making American Literature: Franklin to Cooper (1996), and The Beat Generation Writers (1996).