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Book SynopsisArgues that many people in the world are enamoured with and obsessed by the concocted images of the Indian - the simulations of indigenous character and cultures as essential victims. This anthology discusses the themes and practices of survivance in literature, exploring the manifestations of survivance in a variety of contexts.
Trade Review"This skillfully edited work is invaluable to academic discussions of Vizenor's ideas; it presents insights into his original concept of
survivance and examinations of the variety of contexts to which the concept may be applied."—Lisa Close,
Great Plains QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Aesthetics of Survivance: Literary Theory and Practice
Gerald Vizenor
2. Why It's a Good Thing Gerald Vizenor Is Not an Indian
Karl Kroeber
3. Native Survivance in the Americas: Resistance and Remembrance in Narratives by Asturias, Tapahonso, and Vizenor
Helmbrecht Breinig
4. On Subjectivity and Survivance: Rereading Trauma through The Heirs of Columbus and The Crown of Columbus
Deborah L. Madsen
5. Playing Indian: Manifest Manners, Simulation, and Pastiche
Ying-wen Yu
6. William Apess: Storier of Survivance
Arnold Krupat
7. As Long as the Hair Shall Grow: Survivance in Eric Gansworth's Reservation Fictions
Susan Bernardin
8. The War Cry of the Trickster: The Concept of Survivance in Gerald Vizenor's Bear Island: The War at Sugar Point
Alan Velie
9. Shifting the Ground: Theories of Survivance in From Sand Creek and Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57
Linda Lizut Helstern
10. Total Apocalypse, Total Survivance: Nuclear Literature and/or Literary Nucleus--Melville, Salinger, Vizenor
Takayuki Tatsumi
11. Facing the Wiindigoo: Gerald Vizenor and Primo Levi
Joe Lockard
12. Tactical Mobility as Survivance: Bone Game and Dark River by Louis Owens
John Gamber
13. Ghosts in the Gaps: Diane Glancy's Paradoxes of Survivance
James Mackay
14. The Naked Spot: A Journey toward Survivance
Diane Glancy
15. Survivance in the Works of Velma Wallis
James Ruppert
16. Writing Survivance: A Conversation with Joseph Boyden
Allan J. Ryan
17. A Lantern to See By: Survivance and a Journey into the Dark Heart of Oklahoma
Jace Weaver
18. Survivance Memories: The Poetry of Carter Revard
A. Robert Lee
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