Fugitive Poses: Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence
Gerald Vizenor
239 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0803296223
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Language: English
Publish: November 1, 2000
Native peoples today are best known through their fugitive textual and graphic depictions steeped in a modernist aesthetic of romantic victimry, tragedy, and nostalgia. In Fugitive Poses Gerald Vizenor argues that such representations celebrate the absence rather than the presence of the Native.