Description: -Pointed, absorbing novel about an indigenous artist's long journey of creativity and coming-of-awareness from White Earth Reservation to Paris
Brief description: Gerald Vizenor is Distinguished Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include Interior Landscapes, Second Edition: Autobiographical Myths and Metaphors, also published by SUNY Press; Fugitive Poses: Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence; Manifest Manners: Narratives on Postindian Survivance; Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57; and Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence.
Review Quotes:
"Told in four sequences, Shrouds of White Earth affords a full Vizenor menu ... In this latest story-fashioning, bad faith, corruption of spirit, and narrowed-down rules of the road for art are simply not to be allowed countenance, whether on the reservation or in the wider world. It takes Vizenor's special virtuosity, genial, fierce, and seamed as always in his own colors of invention, to bring home the point with quite so brimming a dispatch." - Studies in American Indian Literatures
"...the poet, novelist and critic Gerald Vizenor is a unique voice in the world of Native American letters ... Vizenor is an intellectual polymath ... Throughout all of Vizenor's endeavors, his goal has been to reframe the one-dimensional notion of Indianness, with survivance as a cornerstone." - Indian Country Today Media Network
"The inventor of invention rides again. In this book, the master trickster takes on the disciplines of visual art, narrative, and song in his ongoing campaign against victimry, to set natives upright and to insure the truth of native survival. Gerald Vizenor is the healer of irony with his focus on the native paradigm. What a pleasure to ride into Vizenorland, where colors spread and horses fly. Vizenor is my chosen composer of words." - Diane Glancy, author The Reason for Crows