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22 produkter
Survivance
Narratives of Native Presence
Häftad, 2008
390 kr
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The concept and idea of survivance has revolutionized our understanding of the lives, creative impulses, literary practices, and histories of the Native peoples of North America. Engendered and articulated by the Anishinaabe critic and writer Gerald Vizenor, survivance throws into relief the …
Native Storiers
Five Selections
Häftad, 2009
317 kr
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Gerald Vizenor presents in this anthology some of the best contemporary Native American Indian authors writing today. The five books from which these excerpts are drawn are published in the University of Nebraska Press's Native Storiers series. This series introduces innovative, emergent, …
Native Liberty
Natural Reason and Cultural Survivance
Häftad, 2009
344 kr
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Gerald Vizenor was a journalist for the Minneapolis Tribune when he discovered that his direct ancestors were the editor and publisher of The Progress, the first Native newspaper on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. Vizenor, inspired by the kinship of nineteenth century Native journalists, …
Hiroshima Bugi
Atomu 57
Häftad, 2010
253 kr
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Hiroshima Bugi is an ingenious kabuki novel that begins in the ruins of the Atomic Bomb Dome, a new Rashomon Gate. Ronin Browne, the humane peace contender, is the hafu orphan son of Okichi, a Japanese boogie-woogie dancer, and Nightbreaker, an Anishinaabe from the White Earth Reservation who …
Chair of Tears
Häftad, 2012
220 kr
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The best stories create traditions, and this novel by celebrated Native American writer Gerald Vizenor is a marvelous conjunction of trickster stories and literary ingenuity. Chair of Tears is funny, fierce, ironic, and deadly serious, a sendup of sacred poses, cultural pretensions, and familiar …
White Earth Nation
Ratification of a Native Democratic Constitution
Av Gerald Vizenor, Jill Doerfler
Häftad, 2012
162 kr
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The White Earth Nation of Anishinaabeg Natives ratified in 2009 a new constitution, the first indigenous democratic constitution, on a reservation in Minnesota. Many Native constitutions were written by the federal government, and with little knowledge of the people and cultures. The White Earth …
Manifest Manners
Narratives on Postindian Survivance
Häftad, 1999
174 kr
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Gerald Vizenor counters the cultural notions of dominance, false representations, and simulations of absence, and, by documents, experience, and theories, secures a narrative presence of Native Americans.
Fugitive Poses
Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence
Häftad, 2000
206 kr
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Native peoples today are best known through their fugitive poses: textual and graphic depictions steeped in a modernist aesthetic of romantic victimry, tragedy, and nostalgia. In Fugitive Poses Gerald Vizenor argues that such representations celebrate the absence rather than the presence of the …
Postindian Conversations
Av A. Robert Lee, Gerald Vizenor
Häftad, 2003
317 kr
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Postindian Conversations is the first collection of in-depth interviews with Gerald Vizenor, one of the most powerful and provocative voices in the Native world today. These lively conversations with the preeminent novelist and cultural critic reveal much about the man, his literary creations, and …
Wordarrows
Native States of Literary Sovereignty
Häftad, 2003
168 kr
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With wry humor and imaginative acuity, noted writer Gerald Vizenor offers compelling glimpses of modern Native American life and the different ways that Native Americans and whites interact, fight, and resolve their conflicts. The elusive borderland between white and Native American cultures is …
Summer in the Spring
Anishinaabe Lyric Poems and Stories
Av Gerald Vizenor, Gerald Vizenor
Häftad, 1993
253 kr
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The Anishinaabe, otherwise named the Ojibwe or Chippewa, are famous for their lyric songs and stories, particularly because of their compassionate trickster, naanabozbo, and the healing rituals still practiced today in the society of the Midewiwin. The poems and tales, interpreted and reexpressed …
Narrative Chance
Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literatures
Av Gerald Vizenor, James E. Seaver
Häftad, 1993
286 kr
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Focusing on published works by novelists N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, D'Arcy McNickle, Louise Erdrich, Gerald Vizenor, and other Native American authors, the critical essays in this collection examine translation and representation in tribal literatures, comic and tragic world views, and …
Dead Voices
Natural Agonies in the New World
Häftad, 1994
253 kr
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Gerald Vizenor gives life to traditional tribal stories by presenting them in a new perspective: he challenges the idyllic perception of rural life, offering in its stead an unusual vision of survival in the cities-the sanctuaries for humans and animals. It is a tribal vision, a quest for …
Chancers
A Novel
Häftad, 2001
171 kr
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Centered on the volatile issue of the repatriation of Native American skeletal remains, Chancers follows a group of student Solar Dancers who set out to resurrect native remains housed in the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.Possessed by the demonic …
Trickster of Liberty
Native Heirs to a Wild Baronage
Häftad, 2005
219 kr
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Inventive, provocative, and ultimately affirmative, The Trickster of Liberty has become a classic in the repertoire of celebrated author Gerald Vizenor. A series of related stories, the novel follows the lives of seven mixedblood trickster siblings who began their lives on a reservation in northern …
Theatre of Chance
Native Celebrities of Nothing in an Existential Colony
Inbunden, 2026
717 kr
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Native puppeteers from the White Earth Reservation search for the meaning of life_x000D__x000D_Theatre of Chance is the final novel in the series that started with Blue Ravens, and continued with Waiting for Wovoka, about a group of native puppeteers from the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. …
Landfill Meditation
Häftad, 1991
276 kr
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In these fourteen stories Gerald Vizenor leads his crossblood characters out of romantic thickets into a new tribal world of psychotaxidermy, laser holograms, and urban ceremonies. Dancing with tricksters, animals, and language is never dangerous in this collection. With the comic pleasures of …
Shrouds of White Earth
Häftad, 2011
430 kr
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—Pointed, absorbing novel about an indigenous artist's long journey of creativity and coming-of-awareness from White Earth Reservation to ParisWinner of the 2011 American Book Award presented by the Before Columbus Foundation Shrouds of White Earth, an innovative novel about a contemporary Native …
Shrouds of White Earth
Inbunden, 2010
291 kr
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—Pointed, absorbing novel about an indigenous artist's long journey of creativity and coming-of-awareness from White Earth Reservation to ParisWinner of the 2011 American Book Award presented by the Before Columbus Foundation Shrouds of White Earth, an innovative novel about a contemporary Native …
Native Provenance
The Betrayal of Cultural Creativity
Inbunden, 2019
396 kr
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Gerald Vizenor’s Native Provenance challenges readers to consider the subtle ironies at the heart of Native American culture and oral traditions such as creation and trickster stories and dream songs. A respected authority in the study of Native American literature and intellectual history, Vizenor …
Literary Chance
Essays on Native American Survivance
E-bok, 2011
63 kr
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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 …
Interior Landscapes
Autobiographical Myths and Metaphors
Häftad, 2009
448 kr
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The classic autobiography of the famous Indigenous writer and critic Gerald VizenorThe classic memoir by one of the most celebrated Indigenous writers of the modern era, Interior Landscapes offers an unforgettable glimpse of the life and world of Gerald Vizenor. Vizenor writes about his experiences …
