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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Survivance"”.
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Indians and immigrants: Survivance stories of literacies
… how Indians used writing to enact rhetorics of survivance which challenged the prevailing assumptions of the dominant culture. Within these texts we see how Indians continued to define themselves in the Metis spaces of colonization and missionary attempts to change them. Moreover, I extended my …
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Rhetorical Agency And Survivance: American Indians In College Composition
… 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 subjectivities in postmodern theory …
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Naissance et survivance du romantisme benjaminien suivi de Papiers
… deux parties. La première partie. "Naissance et survivance du romantisme benjaminien", est elle-même constituée de deux chapitres. Le premier de ces chapitres, intitulé "Un essai à l'espoir ou Walter Benjamin, idéaliste mystique", résume les points principaux des premiers écrits de Benjamin …
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Narratives of Hostility and Survivance in Multiethnic American Literature, 1850-1903
… 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 minorities, racially charged events, and violent encounters printed …
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RECLAMATION AND SURVIVANCE: DINÉ RHETORICS AND THE PRACTICE OF RHETORICAL SOVEREIGNTY
This dissertation includes a contextual analysis of two female Diné poets who use storytelling and writing and includes a chapter on the pedagogical implications of Native American student storytelling and writing. I first examine poetry written by two Diné women, Luci Tapahonso and Laura Tohe to …
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Disrupting the Narrative: Labor and Survivance for the Montauketts of Eastern Long Island
… the 'vanishing Indian' with a new narrative of survivance that illuminates the historical processes that impacted the construction and maintenance of Montaukett cultural identities. Historical sources are critically reviewed, and archaeological collections re-investigated for clues to indigenous …
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Plants, animals, land : more-than-human relations and gendered survivance in early indigenous women’s writing
… 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, p.4). Developing Vizenor’s work, …
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Archipelagoes of Aftermaths: Survivance, Imperialism, and Climate Change in New Orleans, Puerto Rico, and Hawai´i
… survive and resist. Archipelagos of Aftermaths: Survivance, Imperialism, and Climate Change in New Orleans, Puerto Rico, and Hawai´i investigates climate change vulnerability and adaptation praxis in Afro-Indigenous, coastal and island communities navigating the intersecting dangers of U.S. …
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Broadening the circle : the evolution of survivance and mimicry as theme in selected Native American drama.
… 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' play, Off the Rails, which premiered …
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Warriors and Healers of the Eastern Band of Cherokee: Peoplehood, Survivance, and Military Service in World War I (1917-1924)
… of the Peoplehood model and the concept of survivance, this study analyzes the interconnected roles of land, language, sacred history, and ceremonial practices in sustaining Cherokee identity. Furthermore, this study incorporates an Indigenous feminist perspective to emphasize the role of …
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Accepted Here: Cash, Blood or Stories
… the interpretations of Gerald Vizeonor’s, survivance and Stephen Graham Jone’s, Ledfeather. Native identity in the United States cannot be separated from the founding of the New World and the settlement of the West, like Native stories it is successive and continuous across generations. By …
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"The pen among our people" : strategies of survivance and assimilation resistance in indigenous rhetoric from Indian newspapers, lawsuits, and society journals, 1870-1924
… lands, and resources. I argue that strategies of survivance -- a literary theory describing actions designed to ensure Indian survival and endurance/resistance/persistence -- are a useful lens through which historians can re-interpret assimilation. I do so by highlighting the rhetoric of an Indian …
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Recherche d'un fondement objectif et universel à l'action de l'homme d'aujourd'hui, ou, Une morale de survivance
… l'explication de notre sous-titre: Une morale de Survivance. "
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Performing Resistance/Negotiating Sovereignty: Indigenous Women's Perofrmance Art in Canada
… art in Canada in terms of cultural continuance, survivance and resistance. Drawing on critical Indigenous methodology, which foregrounds the necessity of privileging multiple Indigenous systems of knowledge, it explores these themes through the lenses of storytelling, decolonization, activism, …
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A Métis wife's tale: Race, womanhood, and adaptation to settler colonialism in the diaries of Mary Hobart Williams
… Mary Hobart Williams to identify examples of "survivance, "or the continued presence of indigenous peoples on the land in ways that defy cliched formulas. Williams remained stable and solvent on her own land until her death in the 1880s. She did this by adapting her labor, adding to her kinship …
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Resilience and Resistance: Culture, Conversion, and Survival Among the Stockbridge Mohicans
… 1736, I seek to reconstruct the resistance and survivance at the heart of the Stockbridge Mohicans’ experience. My research will explore why the Mohicans chose to establish the Stockbridge praying town and why they chose to convert to Christianity, the religion of the Puritan colonizers. I will …
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Reimagining Indigenous Identity through Performance Text-Counting Coup on the "Cop in the Head"
… ways in which postindian identities establish "survivance"; that is, how the presence, resistance and endurance of Indigenous lives challenge simulations. Native histories in the shadow of dominance can be reimagined through cultural acts of resilience that overcome internalized oppressions or …
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Between the Dreamtime and the GPS / The Metaphysics of Indigenous Mapping
… Indigenous knowledge production, and cultural survivance.1 If maps construct rather than reproduce the world (Wood 2008: 92), how can the documentation and creation of an Indigenous mapping archive assist in bringing forward Indigenous worldviews, in particular those that emphasize the …
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