Riding the Trail of Tears
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Native Storiers: a Series of American Narratives
ISBN-10
0803239262
ISBN-13
9780803239265
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Imprint
Bison Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 1st, 2011
Print length
277 Pages
Weight
498 grams
Dimensions
21.70 x 16.30 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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A surrealistic revisiting of the Cherokee Removal, Riding the Trail of Tears takes us to north Georgia in the near future, into a virtual-reality tourist compound where customers ride the Trail of Tears, and into the world of Tallulah Wilson, a Cherokee woman who works there.
Sherman Alexie meets William Gibson. Louise Erdrich meets Franz Kafka. Leslie Marmon Silko meets Philip K. Dick. However you might want to put it, this is Native American fiction in a whole new world. A surrealistic revisiting of the Cherokee Removal, Riding the Trail of Tears takes us to north Georgia in the near future, into a virtual-reality tourist compound where customers ride the Trail of Tears, and into the world of Tallulah Wilson, a Cherokee woman who works there. When several tourists lose consciousness inside the ride, employees and customers at the compound come to believe, naturally, that a terrorist attack is imminent.
Little does Tallulah know that Cherokee Little People have taken up residence in the virtual world and fully intend to change the ride’s programming to suit their own point of view. Told by a narrator who knows all but can hardly be trusted, in a story reflecting generations of experience while recalling the events in a single day of Tallulah’s life, this funny and poignant tale revises American history even as it offers a new way of thinking, both virtual and very real, about the past for both Native Americans and their Anglo counterparts.
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