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Native provenance : the betrayal of cultural creativity

Summary: 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 believes that the protean nature of many creation stories, with their tease and weave of ironic gestures, was lost or obfuscated in inferior translations by scholars and cultural connoisseurs, and as a result the underlying theories and presuppositions of these renditions persist in popular literature and culture. This book explores more than two centuries of such betrayal of native creativity, examining how ethnographers and others converted the inherent confidence of native stories into uneasy sentiments of victimry. He explores the connection between Native Americans and Jews through gossip theory and strategies of cultural survivance, and between natural motion and ordinary practices of survivance. Native Provenance is rife with poignant and original observations and is essential reading for anyone interested in Native American cultures and literature--

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  • ISBN: 9781496216717
  • ISBN: 9781496218087
  • ISBN: 9781496218070
  • ISBN: 9781496218063
  • Physical Description: print
    pages cm
  • Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note: 1. Gossip Theory: Native Irony and the Betrayal of Earthdivers -- 2. Survivance and Liberty: Turns and Stays of Native Sovereignty -- 3. Native Transmotion: Totemic Motion and Traces of Survivance -- 4. Natives of the Progressive Era: Luther Standing Bear and Karl May -- 5. Expeditions in France: Native Americans in the First World War -- 6. Visionary Sovereignty: Treaty Reservations and the Occupation of Japan -- 7. Cosmototemic Art: Natural Motion in Totemic and Visionary Art -- 8. Native Nouveau Roman: Dead End Simulations of Tragic Victimry -- 9. Time Warp Provenance: Heye Obsessions and Custer Portrayals -- 10. Trickster Hermeneutics: Naanabozho Curiosa and Mongrel Chauffeurs -- 11. Continental Liberty: The Spirit of Chief Joseph and Dane White -- 12. Pretense of Sovereignty: William Lawrence and the Ojibwe News.
Subject: Indians of North America Folklore History and criticism
Indian literature History and criticism
Indians of North America Intellectual life
Indians of North America Colonization

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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