Literary Chance : Essays on Native American Survivance / Gerald Vizenor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vizenor, Gerald Robert, 1934- author.

Series:

Biblioteca Javier Coy d'estudis nord-americans ; 47.

Biblioteca Javier Coy d'estudis Nord-Americans Series ; Volume 50

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American drama--Indian authors--History and criticism.

American drama.

Indians in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (148 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

València, Spain : Publicacions de la Universitat de València, [2007]

Summary:

Gerald Vizenor is the most important and widely published American Indian author of our time. Poet, essayist, novelist, journalist, teacher, committed activist and fierce critic of discriminatory American racial politics, he has devoted and continues to devote his life to studying, exploring and redefining the past and present history of Native Americans in what was once their homeland. A prolific author - with more than thirty published titles - and extraordinarily innovative, he has received numerous awards and accolades. The feature that distinguishes his literary production is the unity of themes and motifs that run through it with a profoundly personal style that fuses prose, poetry and essay under a common denominator: that of a language where the boundaries between genres disappear and give way to a uniqué literature that could well be coined as Vizenorian. Literary Chance: Essays on Native American Survivance brings together fifteen essays in which the author delves into the way in which language has created the image of what the North American Indian is; a simulacrum that Vizenor tries to dismantle with a new vocabulary that reveals this invention and representation through simulation.

Contents:

Native chance: Clement Vizenor and the Great Depression

Native Literature: Trickster Means and Imagic Scenes

Survivance stories: Native American Literary Sovereignty

Trickster hermeneutics: Naanabozho Curiosa and Capricious Tease

Anishinaabe Visionaries: Native Painters, Writers, and Teachers

George Morrison: Anishinaabe Expressionism at Red Rock

Native Tease: Narratives of irony and Survivance

Survivance and suicide: Chief Joseph and Dane White

Civil war at Sugar Point: The Pillagers of Bear Island

Dickens and Pitchlynn: Romantic Discourse on a Steamboat

Imagic presence: Native Pictomyths and Photographs

Ishmael Ashore in Hiroshima: Moby Dick, Ranald MacDonald, and Ronin Browne

American revolutions: Transethnic Cultures and Narratives

Native emigrants: Archives of the Unnamable

Visionary sovereignty: Postwar Treaty Reservations and the Occupation of Japan

Native provenance: Obsessions, Irony, and Museum Collections.

Notes:

Collection of essays, articles and lectures.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed July 8, 2015)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9788437067551

8437067553

OCLC:

992036834