Minnesota: American Indian Art And Literature Today: Survivance And Tragic Wisdom

Minnesota: American Indian Art And Literature Today: Survivance And Tragic Wisdom Gerald Vizenor, 2010   Gerald Vizenor, a member of the Chippewa tribe (Anishnaabe), White Earth Reservation (Minnesota), offers some reflections on the theme of ‘American Indian Art and Literature Today: Survivance and Tragic Wisdom’. He discusses the concept of ‘survivance’, which he distinguishes from mere survival as ‘an active presence’– a struggle against the forgetting, uprooting and eradication that...

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