Interior Landscapes, Second Edition

Gerald Vizenor

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The classic memoir by one of the most celebrated Indigenous writers of the modern era, Interior Landscapes offers an unforgettable glimpse of the life and world of Gerald Vizenor. Vizenor writes about his experiences as a tribal mixedblood in the new world of simulations; the themes in his autobiographical stories are lost memories and a "remembrance past the barriers." The chapters open with natural harmonies and the premier union of the Anishinaabe families of the crane and the first white fur traders. The author bares his fosterage, his ambitions, his contentions with institutions and imposed histories; his encounters as a community advocate, journalist for the Minneapolis Tribune, university teacher, critic, and novelist. Vizenor celebrates chance, or "trickster signatures" and communal metaphors in these pages: he was hired to teach social sciences at Lake Forest College, his first experience as a teacher, because the head of the department admired his haiku poems; he toured the armorial emblems at Maxim's de Beijingwhen it opened on October 1, 1983, in the People's Republic of China; he wrote about the suicide of Dane White and the murderer Thomas White Hawk; he rescued his dreams from the skinwalkers at the Clyde Kluckhohn house in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and, as an editorial writer, he followed the American Indian Movement from Custer to Rapid City, from Calico Hall on the Pine Ridge Reservation to Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Teasing, revealing, and irresistible, Interior Landscapes charts the fascinating life of a brilliant Anishinaabe writer.

The new edition contains a wealth of new photographs and information on the journey of Gerald Vizenor.

Gerald Vizenor, a member of the White Earth Anishinaabeg, is a professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. His many books include Fugitive Poses, Manifest Manners, Hiroshima Bugi, and Survivance. He is the editor of the series Native Traces (SUNY) and Native Storiers (Nebraska).

"The Chippewa writer Gerald Vizenor is at once a brilliant and evasive trickster figure. . . He is perhaps the supreme ironist among American Indian writers of the twentieth century." -- N. Scott Momaday

"Instead of trying to walk the thin, often invisible line between art and politics, history and future, Vizenor dances on both sides, knowing all too well that in our time politics can become myth and vice versa."--San Francisco Review of Books
1. Families of the Crane

2. January 1934: Thank You, George Raft

3. June 1936: Measuring My Blood

4. March 1938: Crossing the Wires

5. June 1941: The End of the War

6. October 1943: Silence in the Third Grade

7. December 1946: Saturnalia at Dayton’s

8. July 1947: Many Point Scout Camp

9. August 1948: The Titan of Green Lake

10. May 1949: The Trickster and Libertina

11. July 1950: The Masturbation Papers

12. June 1951: One More Good Home

13. December 1951: Death by Elevator

14. September 1952: The Pink Flamingos

15. April 1953: The End of an Alphabet

16. September 1954: The Trees of the Emperor

17. March 1955: When the Mist Clears

18. June 1955: The Moon over Matsushima

19. January 1956: King Lear in a Wheelchair

20. June 1956: Return to Salvation

21. October 1957: Death Song to a Red Rodent

22. June 1960: Haiku in the Attic

23. April 1966: The New Fur Traders

24. June 1968: The Second Coming

25. May 1970: Water Striders at Lake Forest

26. March 1973: Avengers at Wounded Knee

27. January 1980: The Russians and Jack London

28. June 1986: Santa Fe Skinwalkers

29. September 1989: Honor Your Partners

Sujets

• Indigenous peoples
• Cultures

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 06 août 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781438429847
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 62 Mo

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INTERIOR
LANDSCAPES

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GERALD VIZENOR
INTERIOR
LANDSCAPES
SECOND EDITION

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL
MYTHS AND metaphors

Published by
State University of New York Press, Albany

© 2009Gerald Vizenor

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Library of Congress Cataloginig-in-Publication Data

Vizenor, Gerald Robert,
1934 Interiorlandscapes : autobiographical myths and metaphors / by Gerald
Vizenor. — 2nd ed.
p.cm.
Includesbibliographical references and index.
ISBN978-1-4384-2982-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1.Vizenor, Gerald Robert, 1934–2. Authors,American—20th
century—Biography. 3.Indians of North America—Mixed descent—
Biography. I.Title.

PS3572.I9Z466 2009
813’.54—dc22
[B]

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

2009018969

In memory of my father

Clement William Vizenor

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Long before I wrote stories, I
listened for stories. Listeningfor themis something more acute than
listeningtochildren know stories are them. . . . Listeningthere.
When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping
for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.

Eudora Welty,One Writer’s Beginnings

Childhood is give to us as ardent
confusion, and the rest of life is not time enough to make sense of it or
explain to ourselves what happened.

Michel Tournier,The Wind Spirit

If one lives in a compact, serried
group, as bees and sheep do in the winter, there are advantages; one
can defend oneself better from the cold and from attacks. But someone
who lives at the margins of the group, or actually isolated, has other
advantages; he can leave when he wants to and can get a better view
of the landscape.

Primo Levi,Other People’s Trades

By his very nature the half-blood
epitomized the integration . . . of the red and the white races, provided
a dramatic symbol of the benign possibilities or malign probabilities
inherent in this encounter.

William Scheick,The Half-Blood

What is true for writing and for a
love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar
as we don’t know what will be the end.

Michel Foucault,Technologies of the Self

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CHAPTER 1Families of the Crane
2January 1934: Thank You, George Raft
3June 1936: Measuring My Blood
4March 1938: Crossing the Wires
5June 1941: The End of the War
6October 1943: Silence in the Third Grade
7December 1946: Saturnalia at Dayton’s
8July 1947: Many Point Scout Camp
9August 1948: The Titan of Green Lake
10 May1949: The Trickster and Libertina
11 July1950: The Masturbation Papers
12 June1951: One More Good Home
13 December1951: Death by Elevator
14 September1952: The Pink Flamingos
15 April1953: The End of an Alphabet
16 September1954: The Trees of the Emperor
17 March1955: When the Mist Clears
18 June1955: The Moon over Matsushima
19 January1956: King Lear in a Wheelchair
20 June1956: Return to Salvation
21 October1957: Death Song to a Red Rodent
22 June1960: Haiku in the Attic
23 April1966: The New Fur Traders
24 June1968: The Second Coming
25 May1970: Water Striders at Lake Forest
26 March1973: Avengers at Wounded Knee
27 January1980: The Russians and Jack London
28 June1986: Santa Fe Skinwalkers
29 September1989: Honor Your Partners

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