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.
ISBN: | 9780803296220 |
Publication date: | 1st November 2000 |
Author: | Gerald Vizenor |
Publisher: | Bison Books an imprint of University of Nebraska Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 239 pages |
Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism |