Review of Native Liberty: Natural Reason and Cultural Survivance by Gerald Vizenor

• Main Author: Snyder, Michael
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2010
• Subjects: American Studies; Cultural History; History; United States History; Morrison; anishina*
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsquarterly/2605; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/greatplainsquarterly/article/3631/viewcontent/Snyder.pdf

Poet, novelist, and critic Gerald Vizenor is arguably the most accomplished and prolific intellectual in the field of Native American studies. His new collection of cultural criticism includes four original essays and nine expanded revisions of uncollected published pieces. "Ontic Images," perhaps the finest selection, applies his concept of Native transmotion to representations of Natives in photography. Two perceptive pieces of art criticism discuss the aesthetics and contributions of Anishinaabe artists George Morrison and David Bradley. On the whole, this work serves as a useful introduction to the theory and criticism of this brilliant Anishinaabe (aka Ojibwe, Chippewa) writer.