Narrative Chance Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literatures

Vizenor, Gerald (edited by)

ISBN 10: 0826311172 / ISBN 13: 9780826311177

Published by University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM, 1989

About this Item

223 pages; 6 1/4 x 9 1/2" Jacket in a mylar sleeve.

Seller Inventory # 134203

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Narrative Chance Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literatures
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826311172
• ISBN 13: 9780826311177
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: Stated first edition.
• Condition: fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: fine

About this title

Synopsis

Focusing on published works by novelists N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, D'Arcy McNickle, Louise Erdrich, Gerald Vizenor, and other Native American authors, the critical essays in this collection examine translation and representation in tribal literatures.

About the Author

Gerald Vizenor is Professor of American Studies and Native American Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Griever: An American Monkey King in China (winner of the American Book Award); Dead Voices: Natural Agonies in the New World; and Chancers: A Novel. He resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

James E. Seaver, a 19th-century author, is best known for writing A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison.