Fugitive Poses - Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence

Native peoples today are best known through their fugitive poses: textual and graphic depictions steeped in a modernist aesthetic of romantic victimry, tragedy, and nostalgia. In "Fugitive Poses" Gerald Vizenor argues that such representations celebrate the absence rather than the presence of the Native.

About the author

Gerald Vizenor is a professor of American studies and Native American literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Griever: An American Monkey King in China, winner of the American Book Award.

Summary

Offering an examination of images of the Native as depicted by the dominant culture, the author argues that representations celebrate the absence rather than the presence of the Native.

Product details

• Authors: Gerald Vizenor, Gerald Robert Vizenor
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2000
• EAN: 9780803296220
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-9622-0
• No. of pages: 239
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 218 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 326 g
• Series: Abraham Lincoln Lecture; Abraham Lincoln Lecture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology