Geary Hobson
Geary Hobson (born 1941) is a Cherokee, Quapaw/Chickasaw scholar, editor and writer of fiction and poetry. 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.
Geary Hobson
- Name
- Geary Hobson
- Born
- June 12, 1941
- Education
- University of New Mexico
- Awards
- Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas (2003), First Book Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas (2002)
- Occupation
- writer · poet · opinion journalist · literary critic
- Fields
- literature · poetry · essay · literary criticism
- Languages
- English
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In his scholarly work, Hobson has compiled American Indian Literature and critiqued the "appropriation and misuse of Indian culture." 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." Hobson also suggested that the use of traditional language by Snyder and Fowler is a form of "naked cultural imperialism."
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• Name — Geary Hobson • Born — June 12, 1941 • Education — University of New Mexico • Awards — Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas (2003), First Book Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas (2002) • Notable Works — The Last of the Ofos, Deer Hunting" and Other Poems
Essays
Essays
• "The Rise of the White Shaman as A New Version of Cultural Imperialism" (1976)
Poetry
Poetry
• Deer Hunting and Other Poems (1990)
Books
• Editor, The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature (1979) • The Last of the Ofos (2000) • Plain of Jars and Other Stories (2011)
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- 1.Velie, Alan R. American Indian literature : an anthology. University of Oklahoma Press. 246. 1991. 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.
- 4.Johansen, Bruce E. Native Americans Today: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood. 135. 2010. 978-0-313-35554-7.
- 5.Wiget, Andrew. Sending a Voice: The Emergence of Contemporary Native American Poetry. College English. 46. 6. 601. 1984. 10.2307/376794.
- 6.Hobson, Geary. The remembered earth : an anthology of contemporary native American literature. University of New Mexico Press. 1979. 978-0-8263-0568-8.
- 7.Hobson, Geary. The last of the Ofos. University of Arizona Press. 2000. 0-8165-1958-7.
- 8.The Last of the ofos Kirkus Review.
- 9.Hobson, Geary. Plain of jars and other stories. Michigan State University Press. 2011. 978-0870139987.
- 10.Hobson, Geary. Deer Hunting and Other Poems. Strawberry Press with Renegade/Point Riders Press. 1990. 9780937280294.
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