Geary Hobson

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]

Geary Hobson

Ph.D
BornJune 12, 1941
Alma materUniversity of New Mexico
Home townChicot County, Arkansas
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)

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-romanticism works by Jeorome Rothenburg, Gary Snyder, 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]

He is also the author of the poems "Deer Hunting and Other Poems" (1990),[6] The fiction novel[7] Last of the Ofos (2000),[8] The Remembered Earth Anthology (1981) and The Rise of the White Shaman: Essays and Reviews (2004 )

Bibliography

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

Books
  • Editor, The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature (1979) [9]
  • The Last of the Ofos (2000)
  • Plain of Jars: And Other Stories (2011)[10]

Poetry
  • Dear Hunting and Other Poems (1990)

References
  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". https://rtglitfest.org/about. Retrieved March 9, 2019. External link in |website= (help)
  4. 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 – via JSTOR.
  6. Hobson, Geary (1990). Dear Hunting and Other Poems. New York: Strawberry Press with Renegade/Point Riders Press. ISBN 9780937280294.
  7. "The Last of the ofos Kirkus Review". Retrieved March 9, 2019.
  8. Hobson, Geary (20000). The last of the Ofos. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 0-8165-1958-7. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. 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.
  10. Hobson, Geary (2011). Plain of jars and other stories. Michigan State University Press. ISBN 978-0870139987.
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