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Informationen zum Autor Gerald Vizenor is Distinguished Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and a professor emeritus of American studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of more than thirty books, including Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence, Manifest Manners: Narratives on Postindian Survivance, and editor of Native Storiers: Five Selections, all published by the University of Nebraska Press. Klappentext Gerald Vizenor is Distinguished Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and a professor emeritus of American studies at the University of California! Berkeley. He is the author of more than thirty books! including Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence! Manifest Manners: Narratives on Postindian Survivance! and editor of Native Storiers: Five Selections! all published by the University of Nebraska Press. Zusammenfassung Gerald Vizenor reveals in Native Liberty the political! poetic! visionary! and ironic insights of personal identity and narratives of cultural sovereignty. He examines singular acts of resistance! natural reason! literary practices! and other strategies of survivance that evade and subvert the terminal notions of tragedy and victimry. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Literary Aesthetics and Survivance1. Unnamable Chance2. Native Liberty3. Survivance Narratives4. Aesthetics of Survivance5. Mercenary Sovereignty6. Genocide Tribunals7. Ontic Images8. Anishinaabe Pictomyths9. Edward Curtis10. George Morrison11. Bradlarian Baroque12. Mister Ishi of California13. Haiku TracesNotesIndex
