<scp>V</scp> izenor, <scp>G</scp> erald
Gerald Robert Vizenor (b. 1934) is a prolific and influential Native American novelist, poet, critic, theorist, editor, and professor of mixed Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), French, and Scandinavian ancestry. With much sophistication, his work has deconstructed the semiotics of the Indian and Indianness, ana...
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Wiley
2010
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444337839.wbelctv2v002 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2F9781444337839.wbelctv2v002 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9781444337839.wbelctv2v002 |
| Summary: | Gerald Robert Vizenor (b. 1934) is a prolific and influential Native American novelist, poet, critic, theorist, editor, and professor of mixed Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), French, and Scandinavian ancestry. With much sophistication, his work has deconstructed the semiotics of the Indian and Indianness, analyzed Native American literature and culture, critiqued visual and textual representations of Native Americans, and examined social, political, and legal issues affecting them. A practitioner of what he calls “trickster discourse,” he has theorized and celebrated what he has termed the “crossblood,” emphasizing qualities of positive fluidity and Native transmotion over tragic tropes of the mixedblood found in American literature and film. He has theorized Native survivance, a sustained and complex indigenous cultural continuance, against notions of tragic victimry. |
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