Bearheart : the heirship chronicles / Gerald Vizenor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vizenor, Gerald Robert, 1934-

Standardized Title:

Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction.

Vizenor, Gerald Robert, 1934-.

Vizenor, Gerald Robert.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, c1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bearheart, Gerald Vizenors first novel, overturns "terminal creeds" and violence in a decadent material culture. American civilization has collapsed and Proude Cedarfair, his wife, Rosina, and a bizarre collection of disciples, are forced on a pilgrimage when government agents descend on the reservation to claim their sacred cedar trees for fuel. The tribal pilgrims reverse the sentiments of Manifest Destiny and travel south through the ruins of a white world that ran out of gas.

Contents:

Letter to the Reader; Morning Prelude; Cedar Celebrants; Migis Sandridge; Green Machines; Federal Humanoids; Fires in Jordan Coward; Scapehouse on Callus Road; Scapehouse Ritual Feast; Zebulon Matchi Makwa; Last Attraction; Gay Minikins; Dead Birds for Lindbergh; Umbrella through the Hostiles; The Cathedral Tunnel; Kitchibiwabik Osidaman; Abita Animosh; Watering at Lourdes; What Cheer Trailer Ruins; Words on the Altar; Outwitting the Evil Gambler; Nineteen Minutes to Paradise; Burials near Macedonia; Hlastic Races and Scolioma Moths; Wheel of Dreams Parish; Word Wars in the Word Wards

Witch Hunt RestaurantWestward on Witching Sticks; Conceived at Wounded Knee; Terminal Creeds at Orion; Nijode Bidaban; Master Stranger of Lightning; Freedom Train to Santa Fe; Palace of the Governors; Backward with the Mission Clowns; Winter Solstice Bears; AFTER WORD

Notes:

First ed. published as: Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart. 1978.

ISBN:

0-8166-8339-5

OCLC:

427402540