Overview

Paying attention to the uses that Anishinaabe authors make of visual images and marks made on surfaces such as rock, bark, paper, and canvas, David Stirrup argues that such marks—whether ancient pictographs or contemporary paintings—intervene in artificial divisions like that separating precolonial/oral from postcontact/alphabetically literate societies. Examining the ways that writers including George Copway, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Gordon Henry, Louise Erdrich, Gerald Vizenor, and others deploy the visual establishes frameworks for continuity, resistance, and sovereignty in that space where conventional narratives of settlement read rupture. This book is a significant contribution to studies of the ways traditional forms of inscription support and amplify the oral tradition and in turn how both the method and aesthetic of inscription contribute to contemporary literary aesthetics and the politics of representation.

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Author:   David Stirrup
Publisher:   Michigan State University Press
Imprint:   Michigan State University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.600kg
ISBN:  

9781611863529

ISBN 10:   161186352
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   01 May 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. An Indian Well Versed: (Con)Textualizing Anishinaabeakiing—George Copway and Jane Johnston Schoolcraft Chapter 2. X-ing Boundaries: Transmotion, Transformation, and the Art of Engaged Resistance in Contemporary Anishinaabe Poetics Chapter 3. Reckoning Beyond the Crossing/X-ing: Formal Diversity and Visual Sovereignty in Gordon Henry Jr.’s The Light People Chapter 4. Picturing Absence and Postcolonial Presence: Unsettling a Colonial Grammar in Selected Works by Louise Erdrich Chapter 5. So, How Can You Hear Stones and Pictures? Gerald Vizenor’s Imagic Returns Chapter 6. Performance, Resistance: Countering the indian and Sovereign Aesthetics in Contemporary Anishinaabe Drama Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Picturing Worlds is an outstanding intervention. David Stirrup illuminates innovative understandings of the relationships and convergences between story/text, image/vision, and resistance/resurgence in Anishinaabe prose, poetry, and drama. --JILL DOERFLER (White Earth Anishinaabe), author of Those Who Belong: Identity, Family, Blood, and Citizenship among the White Earth Anishinaabeg

Picturing Worlds is an outstanding intervention. David Stirrup illuminates innovative understandings of the relationships and convergences between story/text, image/vision, and resistance/resurgence in Anishinaabe prose, poetry, and drama. --JILL DOERFLER (White Earth Anishinaabe), author of Those Who Belong: Identity, Family, Blood, and Citizenship among the White Earth Anishinaabeg

“Picturing Worlds is an outstanding intervention. David Stirrup illuminates innovative understandings of the relationships and convergences between story/text, image/vision, and resistance/resurgence in Anishinaabe prose, poetry, and drama.“ —JILL DOERFLER (White Earth Anishinaabe), author of Those Who Belong: Identity, Family, Blood, and Citizenship among the White Earth Anishinaabeg

Author Information

DAVID STIRRUP is Professor of American Literature and Indigenous Studies at the University of Kent.

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