Fugitive Poses
Download or Read eBook Fugitive Poses PDF written by Gerald Robert Vizenor and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Gerald Robert Vizenor |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 0803246641 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780803246645 |
Rating | : 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Fugitive Poses by : Gerald Robert Vizenor
Book excerpt: Native peoples today are best known through their fugitive poses: textual and graphic depictions steeped in a modernist aesthetic of romantic victimry, tragedy, and nostalgia. In Fugitive Poses Gerald Vizenor argues that such representations celebrate the absence rather than the presence of the Native.