{"product_id":"interior-landscapes-autobiographical-myths-and-metaphors-9781438429823","title":"Interior Landscapes: Autobiographical Myths and Metaphors","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe classic autobiography of the famous Indigenous writer and critic Gerald Vizenor  The classic memoir by one of the most celebrated Indigenous writers of the modern era  Interior Landscapes offers an unforgettable glimpse of the life and world of Gerald Vizenor. Vizenor writes about his experiences as a tribal mixedblood in the new world of simulations; the themes in his autobiographical stories are lost memories and a \"remembrance past the barriers.\" The chapters open with natural harmonies and the premier union of the Anishinaabe families of the crane and the first white fur traders. The author bares his fosterage  his ambitions  his contentions with institutions and imposed histories; his encounters as a community advocate  journalist for the Minneapolis Tribune  university teacher  critic  and novelist. Vizenor celebrates chance  or \"trickster signatures\" and communal metaphors in these pages: he was hired to teach social sciences at Lake Forest College  his first experience as a teacher  because the head of the department admired his haiku poems; he toured the armorial emblems at Maxims de Beijingwhen it opened on October 1  1983  in the Peoples Republic of China; he wrote about the suicide of Dane White and the murderer Thomas White Hawk; he rescued his dreams from the skinwalkers at the Clyde Kluckhohn house in Santa Fe  New Mexico; and  as an editorial writer  he followed the American Indian Movement from Custer to Rapid City  from Calico Hall on the Pine Ridge Reservation to Wounded Knee  South Dakota. Teasing  revealing  and irresistible  Interior Landscapes charts the fascinating life of a brilliant Anishinaabe writer.  The new edition contains a wealth of new photographs and information on the journey of Gerald Vizenor.  Gerald Vizenor  a member of the White Earth Anishinaabeg  is a professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. His many books include Fugitive Poses  Manifest Manners  Hiroshima Bugi  and Survivance. He is the editor of the series Native Traces (SUNY) and Native Storiers (Nebraska).  \"The Chippewa writer Gerald Vizenor is at once a brilliant and evasive trickster figure. . . He is perhaps the supreme ironist among American Indian writers of the twentieth century.\"  N. Scott Momaday  \"Instead of trying to walk the thin  often invisible line between art and politics  history and future  Vizenor dances on both sides  knowing all too well that in our time politics can become myth and vice versa.\"San Francisco Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45953275232309,"sku":"ByrdShop_1438429827","price":33.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781438429823.jpg?v=1788183790","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/interior-landscapes-autobiographical-myths-and-metaphors-9781438429823","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}