Hotline Healers (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Gerald R. Vizenor
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, 1970’s, United States or Americans, Tricksters, Politics, Biracial people, College life, Native Americans or American Indians, Colleges or universities
- Locales: California
“Almost Browne” is a play on words suggesting the crossbloodedness of the story's protagonist. Almost received his name because he was born in the back of a car that was almost within Minnesota's White Earth Indian Reservation. A crossblood, a term Vizenor invented, Almost is not quite Native American (brown), not quite white. He is the son of a native nun, Eternal Flame Browne, and a native priest, Father Mother Browne, whose trickster activities are motivated by the conviction that he is born to torment authority figures.
Like Vizenor, Almost is a trickster. Also like...
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