Gerald Vizenor

Fugitive Poses

Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 Native.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Nebraska Medical Center
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 239
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9780803296220
• ISBN-10: 0803296223
• Artikelnr.: 21092054

Autorenporträt

Gerald Vizenor is a professor of American studies and Native American literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Griever: An American Monkey King in China , winner of the American Book Award.