The Trickster of Liberty: Tribal Heirs to a Wild Baronage
by Gerald Vizenor
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Inventive, provocative, and ultimately affirmative, The Trickster of Liberty has become a classic in the repertoire of celebrated author Gerald Vizenor. A series of related stories, the novel follows the lives of seven mixedblood trickster siblings who began their lives on a reservation in northern Minnesota. Behaving in unpredictable ways, these siblings defy any attempt to fit them within stereotypical notions of the Indian.Tags
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I would love to say that Vizenor turns genre on its head, forging a mystical exhilarating hybrid between fiction and nonfiction; that he, unlike other post-whatever writers, always considers how to use fewer words as opposed to succumbing to logorrhea; and how he eviscerates and transvalues everything you thought you knew about native americans. But I'm not going to say that.I'm going to say that the secret ecstatic nonlogical spot deep within my neural system that I thought no one else knew about, that holy unnameable spot that I thought no one else could touch, he touches it it and makes it glow blue like the hands of the healers that populate his works. Thank you Gerald Vizenor for making me feel so weird.
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Gerald Vizenor is Distinguished Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and a professor emeritus of American studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author or editor of more than thirty books, including Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence, Manifest Manners: Narratives on Postindian Survivance, and show more Native Storiers: Five Selections, all published by the University of Nebraska Press show less
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