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Loading... Griever: An American Monkey King in Chinaby Gerald Vizenor
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Appropriately enough Vizenor's most acclaimed book is the one I enjoyed the least. The satire of the Chinese bureaucracy was a bit been there done that for me. Other sections took place wholly within shamanistic dreamspace and I had no idea what he was getting at. I haven't read a lot of the sources that were his touchstones. Perhaps that would have illuminated things a bit. I would love to know what Chinese scholars and Chinese readers thought of this book.There is still nothing like him though: boundless, bizarre, confrontational and sometimes hilarious. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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Griever de Hocus, accomopanied by his rooster, Matteo Ricci, plays havoc with the monolithic institutions of the People's Republic of China in Vizenor's inspired retelling of the classic Chinese Journey to the West. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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