LITERARY CHANCE ESSAYS ON NATIVE AMERICAN SURVIVANCE
Gerald Vizenor is currently the most important and prolific Native American author. A poet, essayist, novelist, journalist, professor, committed activist, and fierce critic of discriminatory racial policies in the United States, he has dedicated-and continues to dedicate-his life to studying, exploring, and redefining the past and present history of Native Americans on what was once their land. A prolific and extraordinarily innovative author-with more than thirty published titles-he has received numerous awards and accolades. His literary output is distinguished by a unity of themes and motifs, conveyed through a deeply personal style that fuses prose, poetry, and the essay. These elements share a common denominator: a language in which genre boundaries dissolve, giving way to a unique literature that might well be termed "Vizenorian." Literary Chance: Essays on Native American Survivance collects fifteen essays in which the author delves into how language has shaped the image of the Native American-a simulacrum that Vizenor seeks to dismantle using a new vocabulary designed to expose this invention and its representation based on simulation.
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VIZENOR GERALD
Gerald Robert Vizenor Minneapolis, 1934 es un destacado escritor, erudito y activista de la Nación Anishinaabe White Earth . Tras servir en el Ejército, se formó en la Universidad de Minnesota, ejerciendo como periodista. Es una figura clave del Renacimiento Nativo Americano, célebre por acuñar el concepto teórico de survivance supervivencia activa . Su prolífica obra incluye poesía haiku, ensayos críticos y novelas postmodernas como Bearheart 1979 y Griever: An American Monkey King in China 1987 , ganadora del American Book Award. Ha sido profesor emérito en la Universidad de California, Berkeley, y docente en la Universidad de Nuevo México.
