Gerald Vizenor: Texts and Contexts

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments | vii Introduction, Deborah L. Madsen and A. Robert Lee | 1 PART ONE Texts 1. Storier: Gerald Vizenor’s Father Meme, A. Robert Lee | 12 2. Pacifists, Tricksters, Writers, and Victims in Hiroshima Bugi, Alan R. Velie | 30 3. Gerald’s Game: Postindian Subjectivity in Vizenor’s Interior Landscapes, Michael Snyder | 46 4. Wild Word Hunters: Tricky Language and Literary Allusion in Harold of Orange, John Gamber | 67 5. Satirical Ambivalence and Vizenor’s Bearheart, Helmbrecht Breinig | 86 6. Moon Vines Among the Ruins: Vizenor’s Poetics of Native Presence, David L. Moore | 106 PART TWO Contexts 7. Writing in the Fourth Person: A Lacanian Reading of Vizenor’s Pronouns, Deborah L. Madsen | 130 8. “He Made a Teasing Whistle on the Wind”: Situating the Literary Activism of Gerald Vizenor, Chris LaLonde | 152 9. Scenes of Picturing: Gerald Vizenor’s Phototext, Shamoon Zamir | 166 10. Postindian Survivance: Gerald Vizenor and Kimberly Blaeser, Jill Doerfler | 186 11. Shadow Casting: William Apess, Survivance, and the Problem of Historical Recovery, Drew Lopenzina | 208 12. Museum Survivance: Vizenor Before and After Repatriation, Linda Lizut Helstern | 231 13. The Trick of Grieving Well and the Grief of Tricking Well: The Unspeakable Gerald Vizenor, Kathryn W. Shanley | 249 vi Contents PART THREE Vizenor Texts 14. Praise the Ravens: A Literary Interview, Gerald Vizenor and A. Robert Lee | 268 15. Constitution of the White Earth Nation, Gerald Vizenor | 282 16. The Constitution of the White Earth Nation, Gerald Vizenor and Others | 290 Notes on Contributors | 307 Index | 311 ...