Gerald R. Vizenor
At a glance:
- Series: American Ethnic Writers
- Categories: Literature, Publishing
- Subcategories: Novelists, Short Story Writers, Poetry, Poets, Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, American Indian History
Article abstract: Gerald Vizenor is known for his provocative and theoretically sophisticated works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
An original voice in postmodern literature, Gerald Vizenor is a brilliant novelist, poet, and essayist, as well as an influential critic. He has received the Josephine Miles PEN award for Interior Landscapes, 1990; the Illinois State University/Fiction Collective Prize, 1986; and the American Book Award,1988, for Griever: An American Monkey King in China (1987).
Vizenor, who claims a mixed Native American...
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