Criticism

Haseltine, Patricia. "The Voices of Gerald Vizenor: Survival through Transformation." American Indian Quarterly (Winter 1985): 31-47.

Considers Vizenor's use of the trickster in his novel Earthdivers.

Jahner, Elaine. "Cultural Shrines Revisited." American Indian Quarterly (Winter 1985): 23-9.

Describes Vizenor's use of metaphor to discuss the power of language.

Olsen, Lance. "Third Generation Post-Modernists." American Book Review 9, No. 6 (January/February 1988): 12-13, 20.

Reviews Vizenor's novel Griever as well as works by other authors.

Ross, John. "A Funny Thing Happened to Columbus on His Way to Japan." San Francisco Review of Books 16, No. 3 (1991): 11-12.

Reviews The Heirs of Columbus and compares it to other works about Columbus.

Sale, Kirkpatrick. "Roll on, Columbus, Roll on." The Nation (New York) 253, No. 13 (21 October 1991): 465, 486-90.

Argues that although The Heirs of Columbus is not a novel in the traditional sense, it is nonetheless a successful work of Native American literature.

Silberman, Robert. "Gerald Vizenor and Harold of Orange: From Word Cinemas to Real Cinema." American Indian Quarterly (Winter 1985): 5-21.

Discusses the relationship between the screenplay Harold of Orange and Vizenor's career as a writer.

Vizenor, Gerald. "The Envoy to Haiku." Chicago Review 39, Nos. 3-4 (1993): 55-62.

Discusses how exposure to haiku while stationed in Japan brought him closer to Native American literature.