Native American Literature, Religion & Beliefs - Fiction, Native American Peoples - Fiction & Literature
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Overview
Centered on the volatile issue of the repatriation of Native American skeletal remains, Chancers follows a group of student Solar Dancers who set out to resurrect Native remains housed in the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.Author Biography: Gerald Vizenor is Professor of Native American Literature and American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Griever: An American Monkey King in China, which won the American Book Award.
Editorials
Library Journal
In this darkly comic and satiric novel, academics in the Native Studies Department of the University of California are being sacrificed in the name of Native remains repatriation, their skulls exchanged for Native bones to let the spirit chancers (resurrected Natives) return. Demons and tricksters, solar dancers and round dancers, irony and victimization, death and eroticism--all do battle in the department, leading to a graduation conflagration, complete with guest appearances by Pocahontas and the spirit of a bawdy hand puppet. Vizenor (Native American literature and studies, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Griever: An American Monkey King in China) weaves together characters from his other novels, along with shamanism and the works of Samuel Beckett, to capture the dilemmas of modern Native life without succumbing to rage or despair. Sexy, violent, and bitingly funny, this book is not for everyone, but readers of Tom Robbins looking for another author will want to give this a try--as will anyone interested in fiction that doesn't play it safe.--Ellen Flexman, Indianapolis-Marion Cty. P.L. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.\Book Details
Published
December 31, 2001
Publisher
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2000.
Pages
168
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780806132662