ON NATIVE GROUNDS

The Village Voice | August 2, 2006| | Copyright

A scholar challenges the conventional wisdom on Native American fiction-and writes his own novel

"There are two kinds of Visual memory," Nabokov's Humbert Humbert tells us. "One when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind with your eyes open . . . and the other when you instantly evoke, with shut eyes, on the dark innerside of your eyelids, the objective, absolutely optical replica of a beloved face, a little ghost in natural colors." The second, of course, is how he sees Lolita. Depending on how you adjust your vision, it has everything or only something to do with ...

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