Gerald Vizenor writes novels, stories, essays and theory that use satire, trickster figures and deliberate linguistic play to challenge fixed ideas about Native identity. Bearheart sends a group of Indigenous travellers across a collapsing, fuel-starved United States in a surreal road narrative filled with violence, parody and spiritual transformation. Griever: An American Monkey King in China places an Anishinaabe trickster-like academic in China, where his interventions repeatedly turn political and comic, while The Heirs of Columbus reimagines the legacy of Columbus through an Indigenous family with its own version of history and inheritance. Vizenor's fiction is nonlinear, intellectual and often mischievous, mixing myth, postmodern narrative and political argument. His work fits Native American literature, postmodern fiction and trickster narratives, especially for readers of Leslie Marmon Silko who are comfortable with experimental structure and satire. Read more Less
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