Bibliograph

Chair of tears, Gerald Vizenor

Type

Label

Chair of tears, Gerald Vizenor

Language

eng

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Chair of tears

Oclc number

748941718

Responsibility statement

Gerald Vizenor

Series statement

Native storiers: a series of American narratives

Summary

"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."--P. [4] of cover

Table Of Contents

Captain eighty -- Chair of tears -- Removal treaty -- Full house casino -- Panic hole chancery -- Irony dogs -- Skin dunk -- Last lecture -- Postindian holograms -- Denivance press -- Stray visions -- Earthdiver auction

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