Geary Hobson

 ( 1941 Births ) 

Geary Hobson (born 1941) is a Cherokee, Quapaw/Chickasaw scholar, editor and writer of fiction and poetry.

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. 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.

In his scholarly work, Hobson has compiled American Indian Literature and critiqued the "Pretendian 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-romanticism 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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Bibliography

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Essays

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

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Books

• Editor, The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature (1979)
  (1979). 9780826305688, University of New Mexico Press. . ISBN 9780826305688
• The Last of the Ofos (2000)
  (2025). 9780816519583, University of Arizona Press. ISBN 9780816519583
• Plain of Jars and Other Stories (2011)
  (2025). 9780870139987, Michigan State University Press. ISBN 9780870139987

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Poetry

• Deer Hunting and Other Poems (1990)
  Geary Hobson (1990). 9780937280294, Strawberry Press with Renegade/Point Riders Press. ISBN 9780937280294

Categories: 1941 Births, Living People, Cherokee Male Writers, Cherokee Writers, 20th-century American Educators, University Of Oklahoma Faculty, 20th-century American Male Writers, 20th-century Native American People, 21st-century Native American Writers, Chickasaw People, Quapaw People, Native American Poets

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