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- Book Title
- Heirs of Columbus
- Publication Name
- The Heirs of Columbus
- Title
- The Heirs of Columbus
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0819562491
- EAN
- 9780819562494
- ISBN
- 9780819562494
- Publisher
- Wesleyan University Press
- Genre
- Social Science, Fiction
- Topic
- General, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
- Release Date
- 23/08/1991
- Release Year
- 1991
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publication Year
- 1991
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 9.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 198 Pages
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A novel which turns cultural aggression on its head as the Native American heirs of Christopher Columbus, himself descended from early Mayan explorers, create a fantastic tribal nation. "If you must read a book on Columbus," declared the Los Angeles Times in its review of The Heirs of Columbus, "this is the one." Gerald Vizenor's novel reclaims the story of Chrisopher Columbus on behalf of Native Americans by declaring the explorer himself to be a descendent of early Mayans and follows the adventures of his modern-day, mixedblood heirs as they create a fantastic tribal nation. The genetic heirs of Christopher Columbus meet annually at the Stone Tavern at the headwaters of the Mississippi to remember their "stories in the blood" and plan their tribal nation. They are inspired by the late-night talk radio discourses of Stone Columbus, a trickster healer who became rich as the captain of the sovereign bingo barge Santa Maria Casino, anchored in the international waters of the Lake of the Woods. The heirs' plan to reclaim their heritage enrages the government and inspires the tribal nations in a comic tale of mythic proportions. Vizenor is a mixedblood Chippewa who writes fiction in the trickster mode of Native American tradition, using humor to challenge received ideas and subvert the status quo. In The Heirs of Columbus he "reveals not only how Indians have staved off the tidal wave of assimilation," noted the San Francisco Chronicle, "but also how, through humor and persistence, they sometimes reverse the direction of cultural appropriation and, in the process, transform the alien values imposed on them." "Vizenor understands the wilder, irrational, half-mad parts of the Discoverer's soul as few people ever have," noted Kirkpatrick Sale in the Nation; "Columbus is appropriated here in an entirely new way, made to be an Indian in service to his Indian descendents." And the Voice Literary Supplement said "Even more rousing than Vizenor's deconstruction of Columbus, though, is his alternative vision of an American identity."
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Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
ISBN-10
0819562491
ISBN-13
9780819562494
eBay Product ID (ePID)
916983
Product Key Features
Book Title
Heirs of Columbus
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
Publication Year
1991
Genre
Social Science, Fiction
Number of Pages
198 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
9.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3572.I9h45 1991
Reviews
"Vizenor is unquestionably one of the most radical American literary voices on the subject of racial identity and an ironist extraordinaire as a witness to the aftermath of Manifest Destiny."-Voice Literary Supplement, "Vizenor is unquestionably one of the most radical American literary voices on the subject of racial identity and an ironist extraordinaire as a witness to the aftermath of Manifest Destiny." -- Voice Literary Supplement, A mythopoeic space-age chronicle . . . a modern Indian epilogue to the Columbus myth as incredible as any traditional stories. If you must read a book on Columbus . . . this is the one., "Vizenor understands the wilder, irrational, half-mad parts of the Discoverer's soul as few people ever haveÉColumbus is appropriated here in an entirely new way, made to be an Indian in service to his Indian descendents."ÑKirkpatrick Sale, Nation, Vizenor is unquestionably one of the most radical American literary voices on the subject of racial identity and an ironist extraordinaire as a witness to the aftermath of Manifest Destiny., "Vizenor understands the wilder, irrational, half-mad parts of the Discoverer's soul as few people ever have…Columbus is appropriated here in an entirely new way, made to be an Indian in service to his Indian descendents."-Kirkpatrick Sale, Nation, "A mythopoeic space-age chronicle . . . a modern Indian epilogue to the Columbus myth as incredible as any traditional stories. If you must read a book on Columbus . . . this is the one." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Vizenor understands the wilder, irrational, half-mad parts of the Discoverer's soul as few people ever have...Columbus is appropriated here in an entirely new way, made to be an Indian in service to his Indian descendents."--Kirkpatrick Sale, Nation "Vizenor is unquestionably one of the most radical American literary voices on the subject of racial identity and an ironist extraordinaire as a witness to the aftermath of Manifest Destiny."-- Voice Literary Supplement, "A mythopoeic space-age chronicle . . . a modern Indian epilogue to the Columbus myth as incredible as any traditional stories. If you must read a book on Columbus . . . this is the one." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review, "A mythopoeic space-age chronicle . . . a modern Indian epilogue to the Columbus myth as incredible as any traditional stories. If you must read a book on Columbus . . . this is the one."-- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Vizenor is unquestionably one of the most radical American literary voices on the subject of racial identity and an ironist extraordinaire as a witness to the aftermath of Manifest Destiny."-- Voice Literary Supplement "A mythopoeic space-age chronicle . . . a modern Indian epilogue to the Columbus myth as incredible as any traditional stories. If you must read a book on Columbus . . . this is the one."-- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Vizenor understands the wilder, irrational, half-mad parts of the Discoverer's soul as few people ever haveColumbus is appropriated here in an entirely new way, made to be an Indian in service to his Indian descendents."--Kirkpatrick Sale, Nation, "Vizenor is unquestionably one of the most radical American literary voices on the subject of racial identity and an ironist extraordinaire as a witness to the aftermath of Manifest Destiny."ÑVoice Literary Supplement, "A mythopoeic space-age chronicle . . . a modern Indian epilogue to the Columbus myth as incredible as any traditional stories. If you must read a book on Columbus . . . this is the one." ÑLos Angeles Times Book Review, "A mythopoeic space-age chronicle . . . a modern Indian epilogue to the Columbus myth as incredible as any traditional stories. If you must read a book on Columbus . . . this is the one." - Los Angeles Times Book Review, "A mythopoeic space-age chronicle . . . a modern Indian epilogue to the Columbus myth as incredible as any traditional stories. If you must read a book on Columbus . . . this is the one." -Los Angeles Times Book Review, "A mythopoeic space-age chronicle . . . a modern Indian epilogue to the Columbus myth as incredible as any traditional stories. If you must read a book on Columbus . . . this is the one."-- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Vizenor combines ancient American storytelling with space-age literary techniques. I don't know of anyone else who is doing this."--Ishmael Reed "Vizenor is unquestionably one of the most radical American literary voices on the subject of racial identity and an ironist extraordinaire as a witness to the aftermath of Manifest Destiny."-- Voice Literary Supplement "A mythopoeic space-age chronicle . . . a modern Indian epilogue to the Columbus myth as incredible as any traditional stories. If you must read a book on Columbus . . . this is the one."-- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Vizenor understands the wilder, irrational, half-mad parts of the Discoverer's soul as few people ever haveColumbus is appropriated here in an entirely new way, made to be an Indian in service to his Indian descendents."--Kirkpatrick Sale, Nation, "Vizenor understands the wilder, irrational, half-mad parts of the Discoverer's soul as few people ever have...Columbus is appropriated here in an entirely new way, made to be an Indian in service to his Indian descendents."-Kirkpatrick Sale, Nation, "A mythopoeic space-age chronicle . . . a modern Indian epilogue to the Columbus myth as incredible as any traditional stories. If you must read a book on Columbus . . . this is the one." --Los Angeles Times Book Review, Vizenor understands the wilder, irrational, half-mad parts of the Discoverer's soul as few people ever have...Columbus is appropriated here in an entirely new way, made to be an Indian in service to his Indian descendents., "Vizenor understands the wilder, irrational, half-mad parts of the Discoverer's soul as few people ever have Columbus is appropriated here in an entirely new way, made to be an Indian in service to his Indian descendents."-Kirkpatrick Sale, Nation, "Vizenor is unquestionably one of the most radical American literary voices on the subject of racial identity and an ironist extraordinaire as a witness to the aftermath of Manifest Destiny."- Voice Literary Supplement, "Vizenor combines ancient American storytelling with space-age literary techniques. I don't know of anyone else who is doing this."--Ishmael Reed
Copyright Date
1991
Lccn
91-008242
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
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Dewey Edition
20
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