Fugitive Poses: Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and PresenceU of Nebraska Press, 2000 M01 1 - 238 pages Native peoples today are best known through their fugitive poses: 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. |
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Fugitive Poses: Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence Gerald Robert Vizenor No preview available - 2000 |
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