 | Native Liberty: Natural Reason and Cultural Survivance Subjects: American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism; Indians in literature; Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity; Indians of North America -- Intellectual life; 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. 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. He is the author of more than thirty books, including Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence , Manifest Manners: Narratives on Postindian Survivance , and editor of Native Storiers: Five Selections , all published by the University of Nebraska Press. |
