Native America can look to few more inventive or prolific contemporary writers than Gerald Vizenor. He is the author of "Bearheart," "Griever: An American Monkey King in China," "The Trickster of Liberty," "The Heirs of Columbus," "Dead Voices," and "Hotline Healers." Add to these his poetry, stories, plays, anthologies, screenplays, and his autobiography Interior Landscapes, and one has a voice at once full of Native irony and the postmodern turn.
The seventeen essays gathered in this volume take the measure of Vizenor s achievement. Among the contributors are leading Native American...

Can it now be doubted that Native American/First Nations literary voice has become other than an established, and hugely compelling, compass? Native North American Authorship takes bearings, a roster of close readings yet situated within the wider latitudes and longitudes of timeline, place, memory. The emphasis falls throughout upon imagination, the "breath" within given texts be they fiction, poetry or self-writing. This is also to emphasize Native writing as modern (and in some cases postmodern) phenomenon, for sure rooted in tribal particularity, oral tradition, and trickster lore, but...