This novel demonstrates several of Vizenor's key concepts : his use of trickster figures; his use of mixedblood ( or " crossblood " ) Indian characters in a non-tragic way; his version of magical realism what he calls " mythic verism "; and his conception of " postindian " identity; and his use of parody, as in the way the novel parodies both Chaucer's " The Canterbury Tales " and Frederick Jackson Turner's " Frontier Thesis ".
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Noble has written a number of books : " The Paradox of Progressive Thought ", 1958, " Historians Against History : The Frontier Thesis and the National Covenant in Historical Writing since 1830 ", 1965, " The Eternal Adam and the New World Garden ", 1968, " The Progressive Mind ", 1981, " The Restless Centuries : A History of the American People ", ( with Peter Carroll ), 1973 / 1979, " The Free and the Unfree : A Progressive History of the American People ", 1992 / 1997 / 2001 ( with Peter Carroll ), " Twentieth Century Limited : A History of Recent America ", 1980, ( with Peter Carroll and David Horowitz ), " The End of American History : Democracy, Capitalism and the Metaphor of Two Worlds in American Historical Writing, 1880-1980 ", 1985 and most recently " Death of a Nation : American Culture and the End of Exceptionalism ", 2002.
