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The best stories create traditions, and this novel by celebrated Native American writer Gerald Vizenor is a marvellous conjunction of trickster stories and literary ingenuity. Chair of Tears is funny, fierce, ironic, and deadly serious, a send-up of sacred poses, cultural pretensions, and familiar places from reservations to universities. The novel begins with generous stories about Captain Eighty, his young wife, the poker-playing genius named Quiver, and their children and grandchildren who live on a rustic houseboat. Captain Shammer, an extraordinary grandson reared on the houseboat and with no formal education, is appointed the chairman of a troubled Department of Native American Indian Studies at a prominent university. Shammer is a natural enterpriser and ironic showman in the tradition of trickster stories. He arrives at the first faculty meeting dressed in the uniform of Gen. George Armstrong Custer. Native students celebrate his conversion of the department into an academic poker parlour and casino, and a panic radio station. The most sensational enterprise is the training of service mongrels to detect the absence of irony. An irresistible novel of original ideas, Chair of Tears gets to the heart of questions about identity politics, multiculturalism, pedantry, and timely virtues.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Pełny tytuł: Chair of Tears
• Autor: Gerald Robert Vizenor
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 152
• EAN: 9780803238404
• ISBN: 0803238401
• ID: 04923179
• Wydawca: University of Nebraska Press
• Waga: 186 g
• Wymiary: 216 × 140 × 13 mm
• Data wydania: 01. March 2012

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