Chair of tears / / Gerald Vizenor

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910818498003321
• Autore: Vizenor Gerald Robert <1934->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2012
• ISBN: 1-280-68780-0; 9786613664747; 0-8032-4032-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (152 p.)
• Collana: Native storiers: a series of American narratives
• Disciplina: 813/.54
• Soggetti: Indians of North America; American fiction
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Ttitle Page; Copyright Page; Contents; 1. Captain Eighty; 2. Chair of Tears; 3. Removal Treaty; 4. Full House Casino; 5. Panic Hole Chancery; 6. Irony Dogs; 7. Skin Dunk; 8. Last Lecture; 9. Postindian Holograms; 10. Denivance Press; 11. Stray Visions; 12. Earthdiver Auction
• Sommario/riassunto: The best stories create traditions, and this novel by celebrated Native American writer Gerald Vizenor is a marvelous conjunction of trickster stories and literary ingenuity. Chair of Tears is funny, fierce, ironic, and deadly serious, a sendup of sacred poses, cultural pretensions, and familiar places from reservations to universities. The novel begins with generous stories about Captain Eighty, his young wife, the poker-playing genius named Quiver, and their children and grandchildren who live on a rustic houseboat. Captain Shammer, an extraordinary grandson reare