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inter in the New World became noble savages, those who threatened Captain John Smith with execution became bloodthirsty villains, and those who exchanged Manhattan Island for a few beads and trinkets became both fools and benefactors. I am, of course, oversimplifying a long and painful history of the construction of what one scholar, Robert Berkhofer, has called the white man39。 on the contrary, it’s prone to “juxtapositions of inpatible elements.” (15) Gerald Vizenor Griever: An American Monkey King in China Gulliver’s Travels The Journey to the West SunWuKung TianJin University Griever as Trickster ? In reading Griever: An American Monkey King in China, I contend that the novel could be considered as a Native American fantasy. By merging the Native American trickster with the Chinese Monkey King and by dislocating the Native American in China, Vizenor creates a world of fantastic Chineseness. It’s an imaginary of Chineseness which is being indigenized by the Native American writer. Griever as Trickster ? That is to say, Vizenor makes visible an Indianized Chineseness, where Matteo Ricci bees a rooster and where chickens, birds, and frogs are being “l(fā)iberated” from the Communist regime. Basically a menippea satire of Communist China, Griever: An American Monkey King in China deserves our critical attention to the Vizenorian fanthology of a China of his making. ??艿鬯沟臄z影作品簡(jiǎn)單深刻,令人難忘,鏡頭裡日常生活中的男人、女人以及他們的動(dòng)物,與週遭環(huán)境和大自然絕妙地融會(huì)成一體。s Indian. (Mick Gidley, University of Leeds) Mythologizing the “Indian” (33) ? But when the seeming white brother appeared on the mesas of Arizona in the sixteenth century,