Aaron Albert Carr

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Aaron Albert Carr (1963-) is a Laguna Pueblo/Navajo documentary film maker and author. His first novel, "Eye Killers" (1995), has been irreverently described as "Dracula-meets-Geronimo." Like Geronimo (an Apache, and there are no Apaches in "Eye Killers"), this brilliant novel deserves much more serious and respectful treatment than this dismissive quip suggests. Combining elements of European vampire legend with Navajo stories concerning Monster Slayer, the narrative is both entertaining and instructive. Readers looking for both aesthetic and philosophical substance will be well rewarded. Carr's novel will one day be known, together with works such as Momaday's "House Made of Dawn" and Silko's "Ceremony," as one of the finest works to emerge during the late twentieth-century "renaissance" of American Indian writing.

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Kratzert, M. "Native American Literature: Expanding the Canon", Collection Building Vol. 17, 1, 1998, p. 4. Rainwater, Catherine, "Who May Speak for the Animals? Deep Ecology in Linda Hogan's Power and A. A. Carr's Eye Killers." In "Figuring Animals: Essays on Animal Images in Art, Literature, Philosophy, and Popular Culture," (Mary S. Pollock and Catherine Rainwater, eds). New York: Palgrave/Macmillan of St. Martin's Press, 2005.