... the Vanishing American, who, in the national imaginary, vanished into haiku's province: nature. And yet Native American poets (Gerald Vizenor, William Oandasan) have also written haiku for precisely the opposite reason: for resistance and survival. What we discover in the varied uses of haiku among...

... Womack, Robert Allen Warrior, Louis Owens, Greg Sarris, and Gerald Vizenor. Although Pulitano’s readers may argue with some of her conclusions, her inquiries are intriguing and insightful, and they provide good material for further conversations on Native American literary criticism, issues of Native...

...” of boundlessness paired with approaching death. Gerald Vizenor: Texts and Contexts. Ed. Deborah L. Madsen and A. Robert Lee. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press. 2010. vi, 316 pp. $39.95. This volume offers an overview of the current state of scholarship on Vizenor by way of close textual...

.... Several writers discuss their af- fective responses to Vonnegut’s work, and five of the essays concern the film adaptation of Mother Night. The book concludes with eight reproductions of Vonnegut’s graphic art collaborations with Joe Petro III. Loosening the Seams: Interpretations of Gerald Vizenor...

.... Hanover, N.H.: Univ. Press of New England. 2000. x, 167 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $17.95. Invoking the postmodern fascination with borders, Carlton Smith draws upon Derrida, Lyotard, Jameson, and Vizenor to...

... with borders, Carlton Smith draws upon Derrida, Lyotard, Jameson, and Vizenor to reexamine Frederick Jackson Turner’s famous thesis from the vantage point of the repressed Other of the frontier—an alternate...

... ways Mashantucket is present while not being named as such? In Manifest Manners, Gerald Vizenor explores what he characterizes as the “tribal real,” the persistence of “tribal presence in the very ruins of the representations of invented Indi­ ans.”8 The survival of the Mashantucket reservation...

...Elizabeth Archuleta Native Liberty: Natural Reason and Cultural Survivance . By Gerald Vizenor. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2009. ix, 321 pp. Paper, $30.00. Writing Indian, Native Conversations . By John Lloyd Purdy. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2009. xvii, 282 pp. $45.00...