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Geary Hobson
Born (1941-06-12) June 12, 1941 (age 83)
Alma materUniversity of New Mexico
Notable worksThe Last of the Ofos, Deer Hunting" and Other Poems
Notable awardsLifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas (2003), First Book Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas (2002)

Geary Hobson (born 1941) is a Cherokee, Quapaw/Chickasaw scholar, editor and writer of fiction and poetry.[1][2] Hobson, is faculty emeritus at the University of Oklahoma. He received a lifetime achievement award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas in 2003.[3]

In his scholarly work, Hobson has compiled American Indian Literature and critiqued the "appropriation and misuse of Indian culture."[4] In his influential essay "The Rise of the White Shaman as a New Version of Cultural Imperialism" (1976), Hobson noted that neo-romantic works by Jeorome Rothenburg, Gary Snyder, and Gene Fowler "prevented others from understanding the works by writers with authentic tribal experiences."[4] Hobson also suggested that the use of traditional language by Snyder and Fowler is a form of "naked cultural imperialism."[5]

Bibliography

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Essays

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  • "The Rise of the White Shaman as A New Version of Cultural Imperialism" (1976)

Books

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  • Editor, The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature (1979)[6]
  • The Last of the Ofos (2000)[7][8]
  • Plain of Jars and Other Stories (2011)[9]

Poetry

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  • Deer Hunting and Other Poems (1990)[10]

References

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  1. ^ Velie, Alan R. (1991). American Indian literature : an anthology (Revised ed.). University of Oklahoma Press. p. 246. ISBN 0-8061-2345-1.
  2. ^ Twentieth-Century American Nature Poets. Ed. J. Scott Bryson and Roger Thompson. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 342. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2008. From Literature Resource Center.
  3. ^ "Returning the Gift Literary Festival". Archived from the original on 2018-09-02. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  4. ^ a b Johansen, Bruce E (2010). Native Americans Today: A Biographical Dictionary. Santa Barbara California: Greenwood. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-313-35554-7.
  5. ^ Wiget, Andrew (1984). "Sending a Voice: The Emergence of Contemporary Native American Poetry". College English. 46 (6): 601. doi:10.2307/376794. JSTOR 376794.
  6. ^ Hobson, Geary (1979). The remembered earth : an anthology of contemporary native American literature (1st ed.). University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 978-0-8263-0568-8.
  7. ^ Hobson, Geary (2000). The last of the Ofos. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 0-8165-1958-7.
  8. ^ "The Last of the ofos Kirkus Review". Retrieved March 9, 2019.
  9. ^ Hobson, Geary (2011). Plain of jars and other stories. Michigan State University Press. ISBN 978-0870139987.
  10. ^ Hobson, Geary (1990). Dear Hunting and Other Poems. New York: Strawberry Press with Renegade/Point Riders Press. ISBN 9780937280294.
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