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Gerald Vizenor was born in Minneapolis, but spent much of his childhood on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota. Vizenor attended New York U. for two years, transferring to the U. of Minnesota where he earned his B.A. in 1960. His graduate studies include U. of Minnesota and Harvard U.. His career includes work for the Minnesota Department of Corrections, and the Minneapolis Tribune. Vizenor's teaching career includes professorship at Lake Forest U., Bemidji State College, U. of Minnesota, U. of California at Berkeley, and the U. of California at Santa Cruz. Vizenor incorporates the Trickster in many of his writings. - Native American Authors Project

Primary Works

Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart. St. Paul: Truck P, 1978. PS3572 .I9 D3

Earthdivers: Tribal Narratives on Mixed Descent. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota P, 1981.

The people named the Chippewa: narrative histories. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota P, 1984.

Touchwood: a collection of Ojibway prose. St. Paul, MN: New Rivers P, 1987.

Narrative chance: postmodern discourse on native American Indian literatures. edited by Gerald Vizenor. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1989. PS153 .I52 N37

Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota P, 1990.

Crossbloods: Bone Courts, Bingo, and Other Reports. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota P, 1990.

Griever, an American Monkey King in China. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota P, 1990.

Interior landscapes: autobiographical myths and metaphors. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota P, 1990.

The heirs of Columbus. Hanover, NH: UP of New England, 1991.

Landfill meditation: crossblood stories. Hanover: Wesleyan UP, 1991.

Dead Voices: Natural Agonies in the New World. Norman: U. of Oklahoma P, 1992.

Summer in the spring: Anishinaabe lyric poems and stories. Norman: U. of Oklahoma P, 1993.

Manifest manners: postindian warriors of survivance. Hanover: UP of New England, 1994.

Shadow distance: A Gerald Vizenor reader. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan UP, 1994.

Hotline healers: an Almost Browne novel. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan UP, 1997.

Fugitive poses: Native American Indian scenes of absence and presence. Lincoln: U. of Nebraska P, 1998.

Postindian conversations. Lincoln: U. of Nebraska P, 1999.

Chancers. Norman: U. of Oklahoma P, 2000.

ed. Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2008.

Native Liberty: Natural Reason and Cultural Survivance. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2009.

Selected Bibliography 1980-Present

Blaeser, Kimberly M. Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1996.

Cox, James H. The Red Land to the South: American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2012.

Gamber, John B. Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins: Waste and Contamination in Contemporary U.S. Ethnic Literatures. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2012.

Isernhagen, Hartwig. Momaday, Vizenor, Armstrong: Conversations with Native American Writers. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1999.

Krupat, Arnold. The Turn of the Native: Studies in Criticism and Culture. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1996.

Lee, Robert A. ed. Loosening the Seams: Interpretations of Gerald Vizenor. Bowling Green, OH: Popular, 2000.

Madsen, Deborah L. Understanding Gerald Vizenor. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2009.

Schweninger, Lee. Listening to the Land: Native American Literary Responses to the Landscape. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2008.

Taylor, Paul B. "Vizenor's Trickster Theft: Pretexts and Paratexts of Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart." in Pulitano, Elvira. ed. Transatlantic Voices: Interpretations of Native North American Literatures. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2007.

Velie, Alan R. Four American Indian Literary Masters: N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Gerald Vizenor. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1982.

MLA Style Citation of this Web Page

Reuben, Paul P. "Chapter 10: Gerald Vizenor." PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide. URL: http://www.paulreuben.website/pal/chap10/vizenor.html (provide page date or date of your login). 

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