Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Literary Aesthetics and Survivance

1. Unnamable Chance

2. Native Liberty

3. Survivance Narratives

4. Aesthetics of Survivance

5. Mercenary Sovereignty

6. Genocide Tribunals

7. Ontic Images

8. Anishinaabe Pictomyths

9. Edward Curtis

10. George Morrison

11. Bradlarian Baroque

12. Mister Ishi of California

13. Haiku Traces

Notes

Index

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Gerald Vizenor is Distinguished Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and a professor emeritus of American studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of more than thirty books, including Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence, Manifest Manners: Narratives on Postindian Survivance, and editor of Native Storiers: Five Selections, all published by the University of Nebraska Press.

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