Native American Survivance, Memory, and Futurity (eBook, PDF)

The Gerald Vizenor Continuum
Redaktion: Däwes, Birgit; Hauke, Alexandra

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Gerald Vizenor is arguably the most prolific Native American writer and critic of the past four decades. This volume casts new light on central concepts of trickster poetics, survivance, and transmotion, and explores Vizenor's lasting literary impact from Darkness in St. Louis Bearheart to Blue Ravens and Favor of Crows.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315452203
• Artikelnr.: 47382348

Autorenporträt

Birgit Däwes is Professor and Chair of American Studies at the University of Flensburg, Germany. Alexandra Hauke is currently a university assistant and PhD candidate at the Department of English and American Studies in Vienna.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction

[Birgit Däwes and Alexandra Hauke]

1. Expeditions in France: Native American Indians in the First World War

[Gerald Vizenor]

Part 1: "Truth Games": Transnationalism, Transmotion, and Trickster Poetics

1. Gerald Vizenor: Transnational Trickster of Theory

[Alexandra Ganser]

2. Universal Peculiarities in Gerald Vizenor's Heirs of Columbus and Shrouds of White Earth

[Kathryn Shanley]

3. Jiibayag Ashegiiwe: Revenants, Gerald Vizenor, Odazhe-giiwenigon

[Chris LaLonde]

4. The Late Mr. Vizenor: Recent Storying

[A. Robert Lee]

Part 2: "Chance Connections": Memory, Land, and Language

5. Vizenor and the Power of Transitive Memories

[Kimberly M. Blaeser]

6. The Ground of Memory: Vizenor, Land, Language

[David L. Moore]

7. Gerald Vizenor's Shimmering Birds in Dialog: (De-)Framing, Memory, and the Totemic in Favor of Crows and Blue Ravens

[Cathy Covell Waegner]

Part 3: "The Many Traces of Ironic Traditions": History and Futurity

8. From Domestic Dependency to Native Cultural Sovereignty: A Legal Reading of Gerald Vizenor's Chair of Tears

[Sabine N. Meyer]

9. "Nothing More Than the Chance of Remembrance": Gerald Vizenor and the Motion of Natural Reason in the Presence of War

[Billy J. Stratton]

10. Ecstatic Vision, Blue Ravens, Wild Dreams: The Urgency of the Future in Gerald Vizenor's Art

[Kristina Baudemann]