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Chair Of Tears
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780803238404
- Book Title
- Chair of Tears
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Genre
- Social Science, Fiction
- Topic
- Native American & Aboriginal, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Literary, Humorous / General
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 6.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 152 Pages
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The best stories create traditions, and this novel by celebrated Native American writer Gerald Vizenor is a marvelous conjunction of trickster stories and literary ingenuity. Chair of Tears is funny, fierce, ironic, and deadly serious, a sendup 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 parlor 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
0803238401
ISBN-13
9780803238404
eBay Product ID (ePID)
111235434
Product Key Features
Book Title
Chair of Tears
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Native American & Aboriginal, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Literary, Humorous / General
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Social Science, Fiction
Number of Pages
152 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
6.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3572.I9c45 2012
Reviews
" Chair of Tears is challengingly innovative and comfortingly familiar, satirically biting and laugh-out-loud funny."--Debroah L. Madsen, Studies in American Indian Literatures, "In Chair of Tears Gerald Vizenor hands us a pitch-perfect send-up not only of Native American studies departments but of academia in general, the gaming industry and the publishing business."-Holly Carver, Wapsipinicon Almanac
Table of Content
1. Captain Eighty 000 2. Chair of Tears 000 3. Removal Treaty 000 4. Full House Casino 000 5. Panic Hole Chancery 000 6. Irony Dogs 000 7. Skin Dunk 000 8. Last Lecture 000 9. Postindian Holograms 000 10. Denivance Press 000 11. Stray Visions 000 12. Earthdiver Auction 000
Copyright Date
2012
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2011-033178
Series
Native Storiers: a Series of American Narratives Ser.
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