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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Gerald Vizenor"”.
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Land, Water, and Stars: Relationality in Anishinaabe and Diasporic Literature
… Elizabeth Acevedo, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Gerald Vizenor, and Mohsin Hamid. Through engagement with select works by these writers, the thesis contributes to critical discussion about relationality, a concept that posits that all existence is relational and asserts that no human being is …
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Cross -Border Critical Race Theory: Black and Native Fiction, American and Canadian Legal Policy
… D'Arcy McNickle, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Gerald Vizenor target an audience with an American understanding of exclusive racial categories whereas Beatrice Culleton, Joan Crate, and Thomas King address Canadian beliefs in multiculturalism.
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Broadening the circle : the evolution of survivance and mimicry as theme in selected Native American drama.
… a combination of survival and resistance Gerald Vizenor would later term, "survivance," and N. Scott Momaday's first play, The Indolent Boys, turned to the postcolonial concept of mimicry as a means of resisting the cultural erasure of America's boarding school project. Randy Reinholz' …
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Walking Toronto's Red Road: The Story Pathways of Indigenous Social Workers
… without telling a story,’ the Anishinaabe writer Gerald Vizenor tells us. ‘There isn’t any centre to the world but a story’" (King, 2003, p. 32). Tap. Tap. ‘Is this thing on?’ Clears throat. Pushing his way to the top of the paragraph, he continues, ‘I figure I would try to get to you first.’ …
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Rhetorical Agency And Survivance: American Indians In College Composition
… demonstrates considerable agency by writing what Gerald Vizenor calls a survivance narrative; she explains that she hates words because they are violent and used to brainwash, yet she likes using language when she can use her own words, in her own way. </p> <p>The concept of multiple …
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Rakyat Malaysia : contesting nationalism and exceptional multiculturalism
… that these efforts are acts of “survivance” (Gerald Vizenor) that assert Indigenous rights to “land, culture, and community” in Malaysia (Simon J. Ortiz). Situating the stakes of Orang Asli/Orang Asal activism at the forefront of my project, I detail how Malaysian literature, film, and public …
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Archipelagoes of Aftermaths: Survivance, Imperialism, and Climate Change in New Orleans, Puerto Rico, and Hawai´i
… A portmanteau of survival and resistance, Gerald Vizenor defines survivance as “an active sense of presence, the continuance of native stories, not a mere reaction” (2008). Mobilizing autoethnography, interviews, archives, and community-engaged ethnographic research, this dissertation …
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Narratives of Hostility and Survivance in Multiethnic American Literature, 1850-1903
… time. In effect, these authors challenge what Gerald Vizenor refers to in Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance as the 'literature of dominance' (3). This dissertation considers minority author use of the Anglo publishing industry to respond to the lies and misrepresentations of …
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Plants, animals, land : more-than-human relations and gendered survivance in early indigenous women’s writing
… as central to feminine expressions of what Gerald Vizenor refers to as ‘survivance’ (1999; 2008; 2009). Survivance is ‘the union of active survival and resistance to cultural dominance’ (Vizenor, 2009, p.24), and the creation of ‘an active sense of presence over absence’ (Vizenor, 2008, …
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Return and Recovery: The Influence of Place on Blues Murder Ballads and Laguna Ceremony Cycles
<p>The relationships between place, narrative, memory, and identity are integral in many oral traditions. This project considers place as actively shaping Sterling’s identity in Laguna author Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel <em>Almanac of the Dead </em>and R.L. Burnside’s rendition of the popular …