396 pages
1. Aesthetics of Survivance: Literary Theory and Practice
Gerald Vizenor
2. Why It's a Good Thing Gerald Vizenor Is Not an Indian
Karl Kroeber
3. Native Survivance in the Americas: Resistance and Remembrance in Narratives by Asturias, Tapahonso, and Vizenor
Helmbrecht Breinig
4. On Subjectivity and Survivance: Rereading Trauma through The Heirs of Columbus and The Crown of Columbus
Deborah L. Madsen
5. Playing Indian: Manifest Manners, Simulation, and Pastiche
Ying-wen Yu
6. William Apess: Storier of Survivance
Arnold Krupat
7. As Long as the Hair Shall Grow: Survivance in Eric Gansworth's Reservation Fictions
Susan Bernardin
8. The War Cry of the Trickster: The Concept of Survivance in Gerald Vizenor's Bear Island: The War at Sugar Point
Alan Velie
9. Shifting the Ground: Theories of Survivance in From Sand Creek and Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57
Linda Lizut Helstern
10. Total Apocalypse, Total Survivance: Nuclear Literature and/or Literary Nucleus--Melville, Salinger, Vizenor
Takayuki Tatsumi
11. Facing the Wiindigoo: Gerald Vizenor and Primo Levi
Joe Lockard
12. Tactical Mobility as Survivance: Bone Game and Dark River by Louis Owens
John Gamber
13. Ghosts in the Gaps: Diane Glancy's Paradoxes of Survivance
James Mackay
14. The Naked Spot: A Journey toward Survivance
Diane Glancy
15. Survivance in the Works of Velma Wallis
James Ruppert
16. Writing Survivance: A Conversation with Joseph Boyden
Allan J. Ryan
17. A Lantern to See By: Survivance and a Journey into the Dark Heart of Oklahoma
Jace Weaver
18. Survivance Memories: The Poetry of Carter Revard
A. Robert Lee
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