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Father Meme Gerald Robert Vizenor

Father Meme By Gerald Robert Vizenor

Father Meme by Gerald Robert Vizenor


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Summary

Presents a fable of wicked priests, sin, sacrifice, and survivance as told to a visiting lawyer and historian from France, a bygone association of the Fur Trade and the Anishinaabe, or Chippewa, Indians of the Great Lakes. This novel confronts clerical sexual abuse and denounces the reluctance of the Catholic Church to punish pedophile priests.

Father Meme Summary

Father Meme by Gerald Robert Vizenor

Father Meme, a sleazy priest, abused three altar boys at the Indian Mission Church of the Snow, located on an Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota.The sexual abuse evolves at the mission, at Saint John's Abbey, and on a houseboat at Lake Namakan in the Voyageurs National Park. The altar boys refuse to be victims and stage various strategies of resistance, simultaneously ironic, tricky, and grisly, including the Fourteen Torments founded on the Stations of the Cross. Father Meme is justly sacrificed by the altar boys in a winter fish house on Wiindigoo Lake.This modern fable of wicked priests, sin, sacrifice, and survivance is told to a visiting lawyer and cultural historian from France, a bygone association of the Fur Trade and the Anishinaabe, or Chippewa, Indians of the Great Lakes.Father Meme is a singular, memorable novel that confronts clerical sexual abuse and denounces the reluctance of the Catholic Church to punish pedophile priests.

About Gerald Robert Vizenor

Gerald Vizenor is professor of American studies, University of New Mexico, and professor emeritus, University of California, Berkeley. Extensively published in the realms of fiction, poetry, and literary and cultural studies, he is also a series editor for Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives (University of Nebraska Press), and Native Traces (State University of New York Press).

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GOR006577719
9780826345158
0826345158
Father Meme by Gerald Robert Vizenor
Used - Very Good
Hardback
University of New Mexico Press
20081016
128
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