Survivance

Gerald Vizenor is Distinguished Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.  He is the author of more than twenty books, including Fugitive Poses: Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence and Manifest Manners: Narratives on Postindian Survivance, both published by the University of Nebraska Press. Contributors include Susan Bernardin, Helmbrecht Breinig, John Gamber, Diane Glancy, Linda Lizut Helstern, Karl Kroeber, Arnold Krupat, A. Robert Lee, Joe Lockard, James Mackay, Deborah Madsen, James Ruppert, Allan J. Ryan, Takayuki Tatsumi, Alan Velie, Gerald Vizenor, Jace Weaver, and Ying-wen Yu.

• 1. Aesthetics of Survivance: Literary Theory and Practice Gerald Vizenor 2. Why It's a Good Thing Gerald Vizenor Is Not an Indian Karl Kroeber 3. Native Survivance in the Americas: Resistance and Remembrance in Narratives by Asturias, Tapahonso, and Vizenor Helmbrecht Breinig 4. On Subjectivity and Survivance: Rereading Trauma through The Heirs of Columbus and The Crown of Columbus Deborah L. Madsen 5. Playing Indian: Manifest Manners, Simulation, and Pastiche Ying-wen Yu 6. William Apess: Storier of Survivance Arnold Krupat 7. As Long as the Hair Shall Grow: Survivance in Eric Gansworth's Reservation Fictions Susan Bernardin 8. The War Cry of the Trickster: The Concept of Survivance in Gerald Vizenor's Bear Island: The War at Sugar Point Alan Velie 9. Shifting the Ground: Theories of Survivance in From Sand Creek and Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57 Linda Lizut Helstern 10. Total Apocalypse, Total Survivance: Nuclear Literature and/or Literary Nucleus--Melville, Salinger, Vizenor Takayuki Tatsumi 11. Facing the Wiindigoo: Gerald Vizenor and Primo Levi Joe Lockard 12. Tactical Mobility as Survivance: Bone Game and Dark River by Louis Owens John Gamber 13. Ghosts in the Gaps: Diane Glancy's Paradoxes of Survivance James Mackay 14. The Naked Spot: A Journey toward Survivance Diane Glancy 15. Survivance in the Works of Velma Wallis James Ruppert 16. Writing Survivance: A Conversation with Joseph Boyden Allan J. Ryan 17. A Lantern to See By: Survivance and a Journey into the Dark Heart of Oklahoma Jace Weaver 18. Survivance Memories: The Poetry of Carter Revard A. Robert Lee Contributors Index

"This skillfully edited work is invaluable to academic discussions of Vizenor's ideas; it presents insights into his original concept of survivance and examinations of the variety of contexts to which the concept may be applied."-Lisa Close, Great Plains Quarterly -- Lisa Close Great Plains Quarterly