ABSTRACT
Due to its recent publication date, Gerald Vizenor’s 2012 campus novel Chair of Tears has not yet received much scholarly attention. The first scholarly contribution, a review by Maria Orban, concludes with the following words:
Outlandish and playful, a combination of destruction and reverence (sometimes hard to tell apart), with humor and ambiguity the only constants, combining elements of irony, sarcasm, parody, comedy, satire, farce, and self-deprecating humor, this novel defies literary categorization. It is versatile, whimsical, uncomfortable, challenging, exploding in references and allusions; it’s Vizenor at his best.
