Manifest Manners - by Gerald Robert Vizenor (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Gerald Vizenor counters the cultural notions of dominance, false representations, and simulations of absence, and, by documents, experience, and theories, secures a narrative presence of Native Americans. Gerald Vizenor has written a new preface for this Bison Books edition of Manifest Manners. A professor of American studies and Native American literature at the University of California, Berkeley, he is the author of more than twenty books, including the American Book Award winner Griever: An American Monkey King in China.

Review Quotes

"Combining postmodern and postcolonial cultural theories with the comic wisdom of the tribal trickster, Vizenor analyzes aspects of contemporary Native American culture. He eschews what he terms 'terminal creeds, ' that is, views of Native Americans that fix them in a certain cultural pose -- usually established by anthropologists and romanticizers -- and out of which they can never evolve without destroying their identity. . . .(Vizenor is) the foremost postmodern theorist of Native American literatures and cultures." -- San Francisco Chronicle

About the Author

Gerald Vizenor has written a new preface for this Bison Books edition of Manifest Manners. A professor of American studies and Native American literature at the University of California, Berkeley, he is the author of more than twenty books, including the American Book Award winner Griever: An American Monkey King in China.