DAVID STIRRUP is Professor of American Literature and Indigenous Studies at the University of Kent.

“Picturing Worlds is an outstanding intervention. David Stirrup illuminates innovative understandings of the relationships and convergences between story/text, image/vision, and resistance/resurgence in Anishinaabe prose, poetry, and drama.“—JILL DOERFLER (White Earth Anishinaabe), author of Those Who Belong: Identity, Family, Blood, and Citizenship among the White Earth Anishinaabeg

• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. An Indian Well Versed: (Con)Textualizing Anishinaabeakiing—George Copway and Jane Johnston Schoolcraft Chapter 2. X-ing Boundaries: Transmotion, Transformation, and the Art of Engaged Resistance in Contemporary Anishinaabe Poetics Chapter 3. Reckoning Beyond the Crossing/X-ing: Formal Diversity and Visual Sovereignty in Gordon Henry Jr.’s The Light People Chapter 4. Picturing Absence and Postcolonial Presence: Unsettling a Colonial Grammar in Selected Works by Louise Erdrich Chapter 5. So, How Can You Hear Stones and Pictures? Gerald Vizenor’s Imagic Returns Chapter 6. Performance, Resistance: Countering the indian and Sovereign Aesthetics in Contemporary Anishinaabe Drama Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

DAVID STIRRUP is Professor of American Literature and Indigenous Studies at the University of Kent.

“Picturing Worlds is an outstanding intervention. David Stirrup illuminates innovative understandings of the relationships and convergences between story/text, image/vision, and resistance/resurgence in Anishinaabe prose, poetry, and drama.“—JILL DOERFLER (White Earth Anishinaabe), author of Those Who Belong: Identity, Family, Blood, and Citizenship among the White Earth Anishinaabeg

• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. An Indian Well Versed: (Con)Textualizing Anishinaabeakiing—George Copway and Jane Johnston Schoolcraft Chapter 2. X-ing Boundaries: Transmotion, Transformation, and the Art of Engaged Resistance in Contemporary Anishinaabe Poetics Chapter 3. Reckoning Beyond the Crossing/X-ing: Formal Diversity and Visual Sovereignty in Gordon Henry Jr.’s The Light People Chapter 4. Picturing Absence and Postcolonial Presence: Unsettling a Colonial Grammar in Selected Works by Louise Erdrich Chapter 5. So, How Can You Hear Stones and Pictures? Gerald Vizenor’s Imagic Returns Chapter 6. Performance, Resistance: Countering the indian and Sovereign Aesthetics in Contemporary Anishinaabe Drama Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

DAVID STIRRUP is Professor of American Literature and Indigenous Studies at the University of Kent.

“Picturing Worlds is an outstanding intervention. David Stirrup illuminates innovative understandings of the relationships and convergences between story/text, image/vision, and resistance/resurgence in Anishinaabe prose, poetry, and drama.“—JILL DOERFLER (White Earth Anishinaabe), author of Those Who Belong: Identity, Family, Blood, and Citizenship among the White Earth Anishinaabeg

• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. An Indian Well Versed: (Con)Textualizing Anishinaabeakiing—George Copway and Jane Johnston Schoolcraft Chapter 2. X-ing Boundaries: Transmotion, Transformation, and the Art of Engaged Resistance in Contemporary Anishinaabe Poetics Chapter 3. Reckoning Beyond the Crossing/X-ing: Formal Diversity and Visual Sovereignty in Gordon Henry Jr.’s The Light People Chapter 4. Picturing Absence and Postcolonial Presence: Unsettling a Colonial Grammar in Selected Works by Louise Erdrich Chapter 5. So, How Can You Hear Stones and Pictures? Gerald Vizenor’s Imagic Returns Chapter 6. Performance, Resistance: Countering the indian and Sovereign Aesthetics in Contemporary Anishinaabe Drama Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index