1st Edition
Native American Survivance, Memory, and Futurity The Gerald Vizenor Continuum
Introduction
[Birgit Däwes and Alexandra Hauke]
1. Expeditions in France: Native American Indians in the First World War
[Gerald Vizenor]
Part 1: “Truth Games”: Transnationalism, Transmotion, and Trickster Poetics
1. Gerald Vizenor: Transnational Trickster of Theory
[Alexandra Ganser]
2. Universal Peculiarities in Gerald Vizenor’s Heirs of Columbus and Shrouds of White Earth
[Kathryn Shanley]
3. Jiibayag Ashegiiwe: Revenants, Gerald Vizenor, Odazhe-giiwenigon
[Chris LaLonde]
4. The Late Mr. Vizenor: Recent Storying
[A. Robert Lee]
Part 2: "Chance Connections": Memory, Land, and Language
5. Vizenor and the Power of Transitive Memories
[Kimberly M. Blaeser]
6. The Ground of Memory: Vizenor, Land, Language
[David L. Moore]
7. Gerald Vizenor’s Shimmering Birds in Dialog: (De-)Framing, Memory, and the Totemic in Favor of Crows and Blue Ravens
[Cathy Covell Waegner]
Part 3: "The Many Traces of Ironic Traditions”: History and Futurity
8. From Domestic Dependency to Native Cultural Sovereignty: A Legal Reading of Gerald Vizenor’s Chair of Tears
[Sabine N. Meyer]
9. "Nothing More Than the Chance of Remembrance": Gerald Vizenor and the Motion of Natural Reason in the Presence of War
[Billy J. Stratton]
10. Ecstatic Vision, Blue Ravens, Wild Dreams: The Urgency of the Future in Gerald Vizenor’s Art
[Kristina Baudemann]
Biography
Birgit Däwes is Professor and Chair of American Studies at the University of Flensburg, Germany.
Alexandra Hauke is currently a university assistant and PhD candidate at the Department of English and American Studies in Vienna.
