Native Liberty: Natural Reason and Cultural Survivance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803218925)

Gerald Vizenor was a journalist for the Minneapolis Tribune when he discovered that his direct ancestors were the editor and publisher of The Progress, the first Native newspaper on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. Vizenor, inspired by the kinship of nineteenth century Native journalists, has pursued a similar sense of resistance in his reportage, editorial essays, and literary art. Vizenor reveals in Native Liberty the political, poetic, visionary, and ironic insights of personal identity and narratives of cultural sovereignty. He examines singular acts of resistance, natural reason, literary practices, and other strategies of survivance that evade and subvert the terminal notions of tragedy and victimry. Native Liberty nurtures survivance and creates a sense of cultural and historical presence. Vizenor, a renowned Anishinaabe literary scholar and artist, writes in a direct narrative style that integrates personal experiences with original presentations, comparative interpretations, and critiques of legal issues and historical situations.

Author: Gerald Vizenor
ISBN-10: 0803218923
ISBN-13: 9780803218925
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2009
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2010