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Author Vizenor, Gerald Robert, 1934-

Title Chair of tears / Gerald Vizenor.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (138 pages).
Series Native storiers: a series of American narratives
Native storiers.
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.
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."--Page 4 of cover.
Note Print version record.
Subject Indians of North America. (OCoLC)fst00969633
Genre/Form College stories.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Indians of North America -- Fiction.
FICTION -- General.
Other Form: Print version: Vizenor, Gerald Robert, 1934- Chair of tears. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2012 9780803238404 (DLC) 2011033178 (OCoLC)748941718
ISBN 9780803240322 (electronic bk.)
0803240325 (electronic bk.)
Standard No. 9786613664747
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