The Heirs of Columbus

A novel which turns cultural aggression on its head as the Native American heirs of Christopher Columbus, himself descended from early Mayan explorers, create a fantastic tribal nation.

About the author

GERALD VIZENOR teaches Native American Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Hotline Healers: An Almost Browne Novel, Landfill Medition: Crossblood Stories, Dead Voices: Natural Agonies in the New World, Interior Landscapes, The Trickster of Liberty, and numerous other books. Shadow Distance: A Gerald Vizenor Reader (1994) offers an overview of his work. Griever: An American Money King in China, his second novel, won the Fiction Collective Prize and the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award.

Summary

A novel which turns cultural aggression on its head as the Native American heirs of Christopher Columbus, himself descended from early Mayan explorers, create a fantastic tribal nation.

Product details

• Authors: Gerald Robert Viezenor, Gerald Vizenor, Gerald Robert Vizenor
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.08.1991
• EAN: 9780819562494
• ISBN: 978-0-8195-6249-4
• No. of pages: 198
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 208 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 277 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous