Interior Landscapes (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Gerald R. Vizenor
- First Published: 1990
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Journalism or journalists, Tricksters, Authors or writers, Child abuse, Native Americans or American Indians, Novelists, Military life or service, Abandonment
The Work
Mixed-blood Native American novelist, poet, essayist, and critic Gerald Vizenor’s imaginative autobiography Interior Landscapes: Autobiographical Myths and Metaphors (winner of the 1990 Josephine Miles PEN Award), recounts the author’s triumphs, tragedies, and confrontations with racism. Throughout his autobiography, Vizenor adopts the mythic identity of the Native American trickster, who uses humor and stories to reinvent his world. “My stories are interior landscapes,” Vizenor writes, and, as trickster autobiography, these stories about Vizenor’s...
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