SOURCE: Review of Dead Voices: Natural Agonies in the New World and Summer in the Spring: Anishinaabe Lyric Poems and Stories, in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 31, No. 1, Winter, 1994, pp. 130-32.

In the review below, Whitson states the two works under review expand the readers exposure to Anishinaabe culture and literature.

Gerald Vizenor, a Professor of Native American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, has already contributed significantly to the body of Native American literature. Now we have two more volumes from him—Dead Voices, a novel, and Summer in the Spring, a volume of Anishinaabe lyric poems and stories that he has edited and interpreted. Like much of Vizenor's earlier work, these volumes find their energy in the retelling and reshaping of trickster tales. In his introduction to Summer in the Spring, Vizenor suggests that the stories constitute...