Griever : An American Monkey King in China
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0816618496
ISBN-13
9780816618491
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Imprint
University of Minnesota Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 14th, 1990
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
300 grams
Dimensions
21.60 x 14.00 x 1.30 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
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Weaving political commentaries and Chinese and American Indian myths, this tale is about Griever de Hocus, a tribal "trickster" who decides to go to the People's Republic of China and create havoc by flouting the conventions of socialism. Winner of the 1988 American Book Award.
Griever de Hocus, accompanied by his rooster, Matteo Ricci, plays havoc with the monolithic institutions of the People’s Republic of China in Vizenor’s inspired retelling of the classic Chinese Journey to the West. Fiction.
Griever de Hocus, accomopanied by his rooster, Matteo Ricci, plays havoc with the monolithic institutions of the People''s Republic of China in Vizenor''s inspired retelling of the classic Chinese Journey to the West.
"Much of the American experience of the New Post-Cultural Revolution in China is related with devastating comic irony. The sights, sounds, and smells of the land are often unerringly captured by the author''s lean, laconic prose." Los Angeles TimesGet Griever by at the best price and quality guaranteed only at Werezi Africa's largest book ecommerce store. The book was published by University of Minnesota Press and it has pages.
