Native Liberty

by Vizenor, Gerald Robert

• ISBN13: 9780803218925
• ISBN10: 0803218923
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Gerald Vizenor is Distinguished Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and a professor emeritus of American studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Literary Aesthetics and Survivance	p. 1
Unnamable Chance	p. 15
Native Liberty	p. 35
Survivance Narratives	p. 57
Aesthetics of Survivance	p. 85
Mercenary Sovereignty	p. 105
Genocide Tribunals	p. 131
Ontic Images	p. 159
Anishinaabe Pictomyths	p. 179
Edward Curtis	p. 191
George Morrison	p. 207
Bradlarian Baroque	p. 227
Mister Ishi of California	p. 239
Haiku Traces	p. 257
Notes	p. 277
Index	p. 303
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