Native liberty natural reason and cultural survivance - Vizenor, Gerald Robert (University of Nebraska Press, 2009)
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
Includes bibliographical references and index
Vizenor reveals in Native Liberty the 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