Enduring Critical Poses

Gordon Henry Jr. is an enrolled member of the White Earth Anishinaabe Nation in Minnesota and Professor of American Indian Literature, Creative Writing, and American Indian Studies at Michigan State University. His books include Afterlives of Indigenous Archives: Essays in Honor of the Occom Circle (coedited with Ivy Schweitzer) and The Light People. Margaret Noodin is Professor of English and American Indian Studies and Director of the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Her books include Bawaajimo: A Dialect of Dreams in Anishinaabe Language and Literature. David Stirrup is Professor of American Literature and Indigenous Studies at the University of Kent, United Kingdom. His books include Picturing Worlds: Visuality and Visual Sovereignty in Contemporary Anishinaabe Literature.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionGordon Henry Jr., Margaret Noodin, and David StirrupPart I: Majikawiz 1. Louise Erdrich's Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Writing, Being, Healing, PlaceChris LaLonde2. The Old World Display and the New World DisplacedNichole Biber3. An Indian's Journey and Tribal Memory: David Treuer's Rez LifePadraig KirwanPart II: Bakaawiz 4. The Anishinaabe Eco-Poetics of Language, Life, and Place in the Poetry of Schoolcraft, Noodin, Blaeser, and HenrySusan Berry Brill de Ramírez5. Ambiguity and Empathy in the Poetry of Gordon Henry Jr.Stuart Rieke6. Justice in absentia: The Re-stor(y)ing of Native Legal Presence through Narratives of Survivance in Gerald Vizenor's "Genocide Tribunals"Sharon HolmPart III: Jiibayaaboozo 7. The Exceptional Power of the Dead in Heid E. Erdrich's National MonumentsDeborah L. Madsen8. Anishinaabe Being and the Fallen God of Sun-Worshiping VictoriansCarter MelandPart IV: Nanabozho 9. Beyond the Borders of Blood: An Anishinaaabe Tribalography of IdentityJill Doerfler10. Enduring Critical Poses, Beyond Nation and History: The Legacy and Life of Anishinaabeg Literature and LettersMargaret Noodin11. Enduring Cultural Poses: Memory, Resistance, and Symbolic SculptureDavid StirrupAfterwordGordon Henry Jr. and Margaret NoodinContributorsIndex