Theatre of chance : native celebrities of nothing in an existential colony / Gerald Vizenor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vizenor, Gerald Robert, 1934- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White Earth Band of Chippewa Indians--Fiction.

White Earth Band of Chippewa Indians.

White Earth Indian Reservation (Minn.)--Fiction.

White Earth Indian Reservation (Minn.).

Genre:

Novels.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2025]

Summary:

Theatre of Chance is the final novel in the series that started with Blue Ravens and continued with Native Tributes, Satie on the Seine, and Waiting for Wovoka. A group of native puppeteers from the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota resume their adventures, traveling from White Earth to an existential colony: the urban reservation in Minneapolis. Basile, the native elder, has become an editorial writer, and the stowaways continue their creative puppet parleys in the context of the historical moment, including the election of Richard Nixon as president. Dummy Trout and the other stowaways secure a houseboat and, with the loyal mongrels, return to French Portage Narrows in Lake of the Woods, the birthplace of Dummy. There, for the first time in more than seventy years, she whispers a few words, ending the shamanic silence of her marvelous encounters on the White Earth Reservation and in the native existential colony of Minneapolis.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Hand Puppet Parleys

1. Doyenne of Silence

2. Native Royalty

3. Fugitive Puppets

4. Mutable Nicknames

5. Strange Harmony

6. Tears of Grace

7. Sovereign Reader

8. Shamanic Silence

9. Silk Memories

10. Columbus Rumpus

11. Existential Colony

12. Gospel of Labor

13. Academic Skinwalker

14. Chance of Mercy

15. Hearsay Man

16. Tutelary Grace

17. Cultural Casualties

18. Hoedown Activists

19. Mongrels of Merit

20. Shame of Liberty

21. Salutary Nicknames

22. Barefoot Psychiatrist

23. Paraday Custody

24. Sue for Mockery

25. Jour Éternel

26. Funerary Mockery

27. Rainbow Herbicides

28. Native Watchwords

29. Trickster of Hearsay

30. Portage Stayaways.

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780819501561

0819501565

OCLC:

1493612711