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Gerald Vizenor: Writing in Oral Tradition

Published in Hardcover by University of Oklahoma Press (1996-10)

Author: Kimberly M. Blaeser

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Blaeser adds continuity and coherence to the Vizenor canon.

Helpful Votes: 6 out of 6 total.
Review Date: 1997-08-01

For students of Native American Literature puzzled by Gerald Vizenor, perhaps the most important--but often the most difficult--Native writer, Blaeser's book is long-awaited and highly recommended.

Blaeser shows how Vizenor's prose, oftentimes cryptic and fraught with neologisms, parallels influences that come from his interest in Chippewa oral tradition and haiku. She explains how Vizenor's concept of "word cinemas," for example, stimulates the reader into active thought. Vizenor's prose leaves a great deal unsaid and unfinished, and it is up to the reader to participate in the production of ideas Vizenor introduces.

Finally, Blaeser shows how Vizenor's prose is most effective in dismantling stereotypes regarding Native identity; by creating an active relationship with the reader, the reader's conception of "Indianness" becomes a dynamic, continually changing process, never static.

For a critical study of this type, Blaeser's book is well-written and not difficult reading. This study is highly recommended, and readers who are interested in Gerald Vizenor and Native American Literature and culture will find this book essential

Ghost Dancing

Published in Hardcover by Picador (1998-08-15)

Author: Anna Linzer

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Linzer's knowledge shows in beautiful novel

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Review Date: 2001-05-08

Though Linzer could have written a scathing historical commentary on the ridiculous treatment of Native Americans, she has instead chosen to write a novel about the amazing strength of three young Indian men. Their lives split between Oklahoma and Washington state reservations, these men are still able to find laughter and the sacred beauty their great-great-grandmother taught them sternly about. Unbroken spirits in broken down Chevys....read it, you'll enjoy it.

The Gift of the Sacred Pipe: Based on Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Ogala Sioux

Published in Paperback by University of Oklahoma Press (1995-10)

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Deeply moving. Excellent illustrations!

Helpful Votes: 10 out of 10 total.
Review Date: 1998-12-28

A must have for anyone interested in Native culture. Each rite is carefully described with a sincere reverence and enhanced with beautifully detailed illustrations. I wish that American schools would use this book as a part of their American History curriculum. Highly recomended!

Glass, Brass, & Chrome

Published in Paperback by University of Oklahoma Press (2001-09)

Authors: Kalton C. Lahue and Joseph A. Bailey

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The only source still in print!

Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2004-07-12

This reprint of a 1972 book is the best (and only) source of information on 35mm cameras and photography (which was called 'miniature' format back when most cameras used glass plates and/or large sheets of film). There is a short history lesson of photography from just before 35mm cameras became popular through the 1960s, then information about the cameras forms the bulk of the text.
Information on American 35mm cameras from this time period (~1920 - 1960s) is hard to find. This book describes the companies and their products. There are many photos, but they are of low quality (copies of copies), but when you are the only source who can complain? And at almost 350 pages this is a lot of information for the money.
A great book about a neglected subject. Highly recommended, despite the poor quality illustrations.

Going Indian

Published in Paperback by University of Illinois Press (2006-04-17)

Author: James F. Hamill

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Great book!

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Review Date: 2006-04-24

This is an excellent book about Indian identity. I had the opportunity to work with Jim Hamill at Miami University. He writes with experience and passion. Congratuations, Jim! I loved the book.

The Great Law and the Longhouse: A Political History of the Iroquois Confederacy (Civilization of the American Indian Series)

Published in Hardcover by University of Oklahoma Press (1998-03)

Author: William N. Fenton

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a wonderful, life's work

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Review Date: 2000-08-12

Fenton is the reigning expert on the Iroquois and has published extensively on a multitude of subjects relating to them. This is his life's work and it is a tremendous achievement. Not a book to curl up to, nevertheless it is a must for anyone who professes interest in American history. Worth owning.

Half Brother, Half Son: The Letters of Louis D. Brandeis to Felix Frankfurter

Published in Hardcover by University of Oklahoma Press (1991-03)

Author: Melvin I. Urofsky

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The Brandeis-Frankfurter correspondence

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Review Date: 2006-06-06

This is sixth collection of Justice Brandeis' letters edited by Urofsky and Levy. This long collection, with 634 letters, covers some 630 or so pages. It contains only the Brandeis side of the correspondence; as the authors explain in their helpful introduction, they suspect FF destroyed his correspondence with LDB sometime in the early 1940's after the Justice's death. The book is particularly useful given the rather sensational twist given to their relationship in Murphy's "The Brandeis/Frankfurther Connection." Much as in their other volumes, helpful annotations abound, which explain terms and events, and add to the context of the letters. There is also a thorough index. The topics covered (from roughtly 1912 until August, 1941) demonstrate LDB's vast area of interests and expertise and his contacts with the notables of the day: Harvard Law School; Zionism; Croly; Laski; The New Republic; the "futility" of the Sherman Act; Roscoe Pound; Sacco-Vanzetti;Taft; Wilson; FDR; Cardozo, and Charles Beard. Issues of Supreme Court jurisdictional reform, intra-court politics, some key decisions (e.g. Whitney, New State Ice, Erie RR, etc.), and personality profiles of various Justices all add to the richness of the correspondence. To top things off, most of the correspondence simply is interesting and affords the reader with an unique insight into LDB's thinking and activities.

Handmaid to Divinity: Natural Philosophy, Poetry, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England (Series for Science and Culture)

Published in Hardcover by University of Oklahoma Press (2000-02)

Author: Desiree Hellegers

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Wonderful examination of complex subject

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Review Date: 2000-06-11

Well written study of Donne and related topics for feminist studies. An excellent read.

Harvest of Violence: The Maya Indians and the Guatemalan Crisis

Published in Paperback by University of Oklahoma Press (1992-09)

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Case histories of an ethnic tragedy....

Helpful Votes: 7 out of 7 total.
Review Date: 2000-07-18

Rather than a comprehensive book about modern guatemala or a human rights thesis this is an anthropological study of violence.

There are 10 different case histories all written by different people who are among the top guatemalan scholars. In these case histories is information and analysis that isn't available in most books and it covers some areas of the country not always touched on by scholars. The whole thing is held together by an exellent 35 page introduction and a final chapter of conclusion with a wonderful chronology of events. Over all an exellent book for serious students but maybe not for beginners.

This is a study about the mayan people that provides exellent incites from the perspective of social anthropologists and ethnographers as opposed to activists or journalists. The contributors have spent enormous amounts of time with their subjects and know them well.

.............socks

Hazel Rowley. Richard Wright: The Life and Times.(Book Review): An article from: World Literature Today

Published in Digital by University of Oklahoma (2003-04-01)

Author: Daniel Garrett

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The premature death of our native son

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Review Date: 2005-08-23

Ever since I read "Native Son" in the early 60's I was overpowered by the sheer scope and magnitude of its reach in telling the story of a black man in racist America. The provocative prose with which it is written and its naked force upon the reader is like a shock wave, even today. Although the memory of that story remained with me throughout my life, it wasn't until this month that I came across a newly-published biography and decided it was time to indulge my fascination for Richard Wright. I was repaid a hundred-fold with a painstakingly resourced biography which not only revealed the incredible life story of a black boy raised to "know his place"in the racist South, but his rise to become a self-made intellectual author, speaker,and poet, as well as a voice for Black America. His success as a leader in Chicago's Communist Party of the 30's and 40's, which he joined primarily to attain a voice in what was then the only intellectual community open to blacks, his assessment later of that party and break from it, his numerous romantic liasons, his marriage and children, and his final period of liberation from Jim Crow America to become a resident of France are carefully delineated by Hazel Rowley with a firm grasp of her subject and a mature, objective voice. There is no doubt that Wright's history is every bit as important and fascinating as his literary work. It is a life lived to the fullest by a man who did not stint to speak the unspeakable about his views on racism in his own country, as well as abroad. Bigger Thomas, the protagonist of Native Son, is perhaps the archetype of possible outcomes of a life devestated from birth by the sanctioning of unparalleled racist oppression. It is well to read Wright's magnum opus before one can truly appreciate the biography of this complex, outspoken, and ingenius personality.