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Native liberty : natural reason and cultural survivance / Gerald Vizenor.

Vizenor, Gerald Robert, 1934- (Author).

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Gerald Vizenor was a journalist for theMinneapolis Tribunewhen he discovered that his direct ancestors were the editor and publisher ofThe Progress, the first Native newspaper on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. Vizenor, inspired by the kinship of nineteenth century Native journalists, has pursued a similar sense of resistance in his reportage, editorial essays, and literary art. Vizenor reveals inNative Libertythe political, poetic, visionary, and ironic insights of personal identity and narratives of cultural sovereignty. He examines singular acts of resistance, natural reason, literary practices, and other strategies of survivance that evade and subvert the terminal notions of tragedy and victimry. Native Libertynurtures survivance and creates a sense of cultural and historical presence. Vizenor, a renowned Anishinaabe literary scholar and artist, writes in a direct narrative style that integrates personal experiences with original presentations, comparative interpretations and critiques of legal issues and historical situations.

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ISBN: 9780803218925 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0803218923 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: ix, 321 pages ; 22 cm.
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Unnamable chance -- Native liberty -- Survivance narratives -- Aesthetics of survivance -- Mercenary sovereignty -- Genocide tribunals -- Ontic images -- Anishinaabe pictomyths -- Edward Curtis -- George Morrison -- Bradlarian baroque -- Mister Ishi of California -- Haiku traces.

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Subject:: American literature > Indian authors > History and criticism.
Indians in literature.
Indians of North America > Ethnic identity.
Indians of North America > Intellectual life.
Genre:: Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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