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The poetry and poetics of Gerald Vizenor / edited by Deborah L. Madsen.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vizenor, Gerald Robert, 1934---Criticism and interpretation.
- Vizenor, Gerald Robert.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "The first book devoted exclusively to the poetry and literary aesthetics of one of Native America's most accomplished writers, this collection of essays brings together detailed critical analyses of single texts and individual poetry collections from diverse theoretical perspectives, along with comparative discussions of Vizenor's related works"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Tribal Trajectory of Vizenor's Poetic Career; 1: The Language of Borders, the Borders of Language in Gerald Vizenor's Poetry; 2: "It may be revolutionary in character"": The Progress, a New Tribal Hermeneutics, and the Literary Re-expression of the Anishinaabe Oral Tradition in Summer in the Spring; 3: Flying Gerald Vizenor Home in Words and Myths Or, How to Translate His Poetry into Catalan; 4: Almost California: Returning to Elemental Vizenor; 5: Vizenor's Life Studies: Revisioning Survivance in Almost Ashore
- 6: Gaps, Immediacy, and the Deconstruction of Epistemological Categories: The Impact of Gerald Vizenor's Poetry on His Prose 7: Enriching Prose with Haiku Poetics; 8: Reinventing the Nature of Language: The Poetics of Gerald Vizenor's Prose; 9: "Compassion is learned": Of Squirrels and Men in Vizenor's Poetry and Prose; 10: Vizenor's Elegies on a Red Squirrel; 11: There's a Hole in the Day: The Third Infantry and Vizenor's Bear Island: The War at Sugar Point; 12: Being Embedded: Gerald Vizenor's Bear Island: The War at Sugar Point
- 13: The Question of Nationalism: Sovereign Aesthetics in Bear IslandContributors; Index; Back Cover
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283848121
- 1283848120
- 9780826352514
- 0826352510
- OCLC:
- 823283405
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