Geary Hobson

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Geary Hobson
Born (1941-06-12) June 12, 1941 (age 82)
Alma mater University 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]

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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]

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  2. Twentieth-Century American Nature Poets. Ed. J. Scott Bryson and Roger Thompson. Dictionary of Literary BiographyVol. 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. 1 2 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.