Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles

Minneapolis, MN: University Of Minnesota Press. Near Fine. 1990. Second Edition [1990]. A Limited Edition was published in 1978; 3rd . Printing (2001). Paperback. Near Fine in Wraps: shows the mildest wear to the extremities; the hint of a crease at the upper corner of the front panel; the spine leans ever so slightly; a couple of barely discernible smudges at the upper fore-edge; else flawless; the binding is secure; the text clean. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing the mildest wear and minor, unobtrusive imperfections. Bright and clean. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8.5 x 5.55 x 0.55 inches) . Weight: 11.4 ounces. Second Edition [1990]; Third Printing (2001). A Limited Edition was published in 1978. University Press Paperback. Gerald Vizenor (born 1934) is a Native American writer and an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, White Earth Reservation. Vizenor has published collections of haiku, poems, plays, short stories, translations of traditional tribal tales, screenplays, and many novels. He is considered a foremost representative of the literary movement known as the Native American Renaissance, a flourishing of literature and art beginning in the mid-20th century. His first novel, Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart (1978) , later revised as Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles , brought him immediate attention. One of the few science fiction novels written by a Native American, it portrayed a procession of tribal pilgrims through a surreal, dystopian landscape of an America suffering an environmental apocalypse brought on by white greed for oil. Simultaneously postmodern and deeply traditional, Vizenor drew on poststructuralist theory and Anishinaabe trickster stories to portray a world in the grip of what he called "terminal creeds" – belief systems incapable of change. In one of the most noted and controversial passages, the character Belladonna Darwin Winter-Catcher proclaims that Natives are better and purer than whites. She murdered by ingesting poisoned cookies, purportedly for her promoting racial separatism. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xiv, 254 pages .