United States: Genetic Crossing - Imagining Tribal Identity And Nation In Gerald Vizenor’s ...

United States: Genetic Crossing - Imagining Tribal Identity And Nation In Gerald Vizenor’s The Heirs Of Columbus Yvette Koepke, and Christopher Nelson, 2011   In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article.   Gerald Vizenor’s 1991 The Heirs of Columbus uses crossing as a simultaneously material and narrative pose to imagine tribal survivance as the heirs’ matrilineal inheritance of Christopher Columbus’s healing genes. Written shortly after Vizenor’s first published work in...

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