Griever (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Gerald R. Vizenor
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Plot: Neorealism
- Time of Work: The early 1980’s
- Setting: Tianjin and Beijing, China; Minnesota
- Principal Characters: Griever de Hocus, Egas Zhang, Hester Hua Dan, Kangmei, Shitou, China Browne, Matteo Ricci
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Tricks
- Locales: China
The Novel
Early in Griever: An American Monkey King in China, Gerald Vizenor informs his readers that “imagination is the real world, all the rest is bad television.” Four pages later, he reinforces this contention, which is essential to an understanding of what Vizenor hopes to accomplish artistically: Imagination, he writes “is what burns in humans. We are not methods to be discovered, we are not freeze-dried methodologies. We remember dreams, never data, at the wild end.” As Griever alternates between reality and fantasy, between consciousness and the...
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