Native American Survivance, Memory, and Futurity

The Gerald Vizenor Continuum

Author: Alexandra Hauke and Birgit Däwes Series: Routledge Research in Transnational Indigenous Perspectives

Native American Survivance, Memory, and Futurity

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Gerald Vizenor is arguably the most prolific Native American writer and critic of the past four decades. This volume casts new light on central concepts of trickster poetics, survivance, and transmotion, and explores Vizenor’s lasting literary impact from Darkness in St. Louis Bearheart to Blue Ravens and Favor of Crows.

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According to Kimberly Blaeser, Gerald Vizenor is "the most prolific Native American writer of the twentieth century," and Christopher Teuton rightfully calls him "one of the most innovative and brilliant American Indian writers" today." With more than 40 books of fiction, poetry, life writing, essays, and criticism, his impact on literary and cultural theory, and specifically on Indigenous Studies, has been unparalleled.

This volume brings together some of the most distinguished experts on Vizenor’s work from Europe and the United States. Original contributions by Gerald Vizenor himself, as well as by Kimberly M. Blaeser, A. Robert Lee, Kathryn Shanley, David L. Moore, Chris LaLonde, Alexandra Ganser, Cathy Covell Waegner, Sabine N. Meyer, Kristina Baudemann, and Billy J. Stratton provide fresh perspectives on theoretical concepts such as trickster discourse, postindian survivance, totemic associations, Native presence, artistic irony, and transmotion, and explore his lasting literary impact from Darkness in St. Louis Bearheart to his most recent novels and collections of poetry, Shrouds of White Earth, Chair of Tears, Blue Ravens, and Favor of Crows. The thematic sections focus on "Truth Games’: Transnationalism, Transmotion, and Trickster Poetics;" "‘Chance Connections’: Memory, Land, and Language;" and "‘The Many Traces of Ironic Traditions’: History and Futurity," documenting that Vizenor’s achievements are sociocultural and political as much they are literary in effect. With their emphasis on transdisciplinary, transnational research, the critical analyses, close readings, and theoretical outlooks collected here contextualize Gerald Vizenor’s work within different literary traditions and firmly place him within the American canon.

About the Author

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.