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Landfill Meditation

Author : Gerald Vizenor
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819562531
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Landfill Meditation written by Gerald Vizenor and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1991-11-22 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen stories by the man N. Scott Momaday has called "the supreme ironist among American Indian writers of the twentieth century." In these fourteen stories Gerald Vizenor leads his crossblood characters out of romantic thickets into a new tribal world of psychotaxidermy, laser holograms, and urban ceremonies. Dancing with tricksters, animals, and language is never dangerous in this collection. With the comic pleasures of tribal tricksters, Vizenor's fantastic characters arise from the burdens of racialism and noble savagism. Martin Bear Charme, in the title story, owns a reservation and conducts seminars on refuse meditation, pantribal fantasies, and animal languages. He restores the sublime connections between the refuse and the refusers, and earns a fortune at the same time. Almost Browne, another crossblood transformer, was born in the back seat of a hatchback, matured with computers, and projects laser demons over the reservation. Other crossbloods win a summer ice sculpture contest, own sovereign sections of interstate highways, and discover instant coffee.

Landfill Meditation

Author : Gerald Robert Vizenor
Publisher : Wesleyan
ISBN 13 : 9780819552433
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Landfill Meditation written by Gerald Robert Vizenor and published by Wesleyan. This book was released on 1991 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen stories by the man N. Scott Momaday has called "the supreme ironist among American Indian writers of the twentieth century."

Loosening the Seams

Author : A. Robert Lee
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879728021
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Loosening the Seams written by A. Robert Lee and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native America can look to few more inventive contemporary writers than Gerald Vizenor. This work discusses his childhood in the Minneapolis of the Depression and World War II to his becoming a professor of Native American Studies at the University of Berkeley.

The Literature of Waste

Author : S. Morrison
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137394447
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book The Literature of Waste written by S. Morrison and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing material and metaphoric waste through the Western canon, ranging from Beowulf to Samuel Beckett, Susan Signe Morrison disrupts traditional perceptions of waste to better understand how we theorize, manage, and are implicated in what is discarded and seen as garbage. Engaging a wide range of disciplines, Morrison addresses how the materiality of waste has been sedimented into a variety of toxic metaphors. If scholars can read waste as possessing dynamic agency, how might that change the ethics of refuse-ing and ostracizing wasted humans? A major contribution to the growing field of Waste Studies, this comparative and theoretically innovative book confronts the reader with the ethical urgency present in waste literature itself.

Gerald Vizenor

Author : Kimberly M. Blaeser
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806128740
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Gerald Vizenor written by Kimberly M. Blaeser and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kimberly M. Blaeser begins with an examination of Vizenor's concept of Native American oral culture and his unique incorporation of oral tradition in the written word. She details Vizenor's efforts to produce a form of writing that resists static meaning, involves the writer in the creation of the literary moment, and invites political action and explores the place of Vizenor's work within the larger context of contemporary tribal literature, Native American scholarship, and critical theory.

Listening to the Land

Author : Lee Schweninger
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820336378
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Listening to the Land written by Lee Schweninger and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For better or worse, representations abound of Native Americans as a people with an innate and special connection to the earth. This study looks at the challenges faced by Native American writers who confront stereotypical representations as they assert their own ethical relationship with the earth. Lee Schweninger considers a range of genres (memoirs, novels, stories, essays) by Native writers from various parts of the United States. Contextualizing these works within the origins, evolution, and perpetuation of the “green” labels imposed on American Indians, Schweninger shows how writers often find themselves denying some land ethic stereotypes while seeming to embrace others. Taken together, the time periods covered inListening to the Landspan more than a hundred years, from Luther Standing Bear’s description of his late-nineteenth-century life on the prairie to Linda Hogan’s account of a 1999 Makah hunt of a gray whale. Two-thirds of the writers Schweninger considers, however, are well-known voices from the second half of the twentieth century, including N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, Vine Deloria Jr., Gerald Vizenor, and Louis Owens. Few ecocritical studies have focused on indigenous environmental attitudes, in comparison to related work done by historians and anthropologists.Listening to the Landwill narrow this gap in the scholarship; moreover, it will add individual Native American perspectives to an understanding of what, to these writers, is a genuine Native American philosophy regarding the land.

Waste Away

Author : Joshua Reno
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520288947
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Waste Away written by Joshua Reno and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though we are the most wasteful people in the history of the world, very few of us know what becomes of our waste. In Waste Away, Joshua O. Reno reveals how North Americans have been shaped by their preferred means of disposal: sanitary landfill. Based on the author’s fieldwork as a common laborer at a large, transnational landfill on the outskirts of Detroit, the book argues that waste management helps our possessions and dwellings to last by removing the transient materials they shed and sending them elsewhere. Ethnography conducted with waste workers shows how they conceal and contain other people’s wastes, all while negotiating the filth of their occupation, holding on to middle-class aspirations, and occasionally scavenging worthwhile stuff from the trash. Waste Away also traces the circumstances that led one community to host two landfills and made Michigan a leading importer of foreign waste. Focusing on local activists opposed to the transnational waste trade with Canada, the book’s ethnography analyzes their attempts to politicize the removal of waste out of sight that many take for granted. Documenting these different ways of relating to the management of North American rubbish, Waste Away demonstrates how the landfills we create remake us in turn, often behind our backs and beneath our notice.

Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins

Author : John Blair Gamber
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803244886
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins written by John Blair Gamber and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative study, Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins, John Blair Gamber examines urbanity and the results of urban living—traffic, garbage, sewage, waste, and pollution—arguing for a new recognition of all forms of human detritus as part of the natural world and thus for a broadening of our understanding of environmental literature. While much of the discourse surrounding the United States’ idealistic and nostalgic views of itself privileges “clean” living (primarily in rural, small-town, and suburban settings), representations of rurality and urbanity by Chicanas/Chicanos, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Native Americans, on the other hand, complicate such generalization. Gamber widens our understanding of current ecocritical debates by examining texts by such authors as Octavia Butler, Louise Erdrich, Alejandro Morales, Gerald Vizenor, and Karen Tei Yamashita that draw on the physical signs of human corporeality to refigure cities and urbanity as natural. He demonstrates how ethnic American literature reclaims waste objects and waste spaces—likening pollution to miscegenation—as a method to revalue cast-off and marginalized individuals and communities. Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins explores the conjunction of, and the frictions between, twentieth-century U.S. postcolonial studies, race studies, urban studies, and ecocriticism, and works to refigure this portrayal of urban spaces.

Earthdivers

Author : Gerald Robert Vizenor
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452902895
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Earthdivers written by Gerald Robert Vizenor and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These narratives compare earthdivers in myths who brought dirt up from the watery earth to form land, with present-day earthdivers, mixed bloods, who dive into urban areas connecting dreams to the earth

That the People Might Live

Author : Jace Weaver
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019512037X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book That the People Might Live written by Jace Weaver and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loyalty to the community is the highest value in Native American cultures. Taking his sense of community as both a starting point and a lens, this book offers fascinating discussions of Native American written literature. Drawing upon the best of Native and non-Native scholarship, the author adds his own provocative thoughts and eloquent writing to help readers to a richer understanding of these too often neglected texts.

Dead Voices

Author : Gerald Robert Vizenor
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806125794
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book Dead Voices written by Gerald Robert Vizenor and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerald Vizenor gives life to traditional tribal stories by presenting them in a new perspective: he challenges the idyllic perception of rural life, offering in its stead an unusual vision of survival in the cities-the sanctuaries for humans and animals. It is a tribal vision, a quest for liberation from forces that would deny the full realization of human possibilities. In this modern world his characters insist upon survival through an imaginative affirmation of the self. In Dead Voices Vizenor, using tales drawn from traditional tribal stories, illuminates the centuries of conflict between American Indians and Europeans, or "wordies." Bagese, a tribal woman transformed into a bear, has discovered a new urban world, and in a cycle of tales she describes this world from the perspective of animals-fleas, squirrels, mantis, crows, beavers, and finally Trickster, Vizenor’s central and unifying figure. The stories reveal unpleasant aspects of the dominate culture and American Indian culture such as the fur trade, the educational system, tribal gambling, reservation life, and in each the animals, who represent crossbloods, connect with their tribal traditions, often in comic fashion. As in his other fiction, Vizenor upsets our ideas of what fiction should be. His plot is fantastic; his story line is a roller-coaster ride requiring that we accept the idea of transformation, a key element in all his work. Unlike other Indian novelists, who use the novel as a means of cultural recovery, Vizenor finds the crossblood a cause for celebration.

Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature

Author : Jennifer McClinton-Temple
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438140576
Total Pages : 1131 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature written by Jennifer McClinton-Temple and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 1131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an encyclopedia of American Indian literature in an alphabetical format listing authors and their works.

Garbage Crisis

Author : Randika Jayasinghe
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031021118
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Garbage Crisis written by Randika Jayasinghe and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will focus on "Waste Management," a serious global issue and engineers' responsibility towards finding better solutions for its sustainable management. Solid waste management is one of the major environmental burdens in both developed and developing countries alike. An alarming rate of solid waste generation trends can be seen as a result of globalization, industrialization, and rapid economic development. However, low-income and marginalized sectors in society suffer most from the unfavorable conditions deriving from poor waste management. Solid waste management is not a mere technical challenge. The environmental impact, socio-economic, cultural, institutional, legal, and political aspects are fundamental in planning, designing, and maintaining a sustainable waste management system in any country. Engineers have a major role to play in designing proper systems that integrate stakeholders, waste system elements, and sustainability aspects of waste management. This book is part of a focused collection from a project on Engineering and Education for Social and Environmental Justice. It takes an explicitly social and environmental justice stance on waste and attempts to assess the social impact of waste management on those who are also the most economically vulnerable and least powerful in the society. We hope that this book will assist our readers to think critically and understand the framework of socially and environmentally just waste management. Table of Contents: Introduction / Towards a Just Politics of Waste Management / Expertise, Indigenous People, and the Site 41 Landfill / Waste Management in the Global North / Waste Management in the Global South: A Sri Lankan Case Study / Assessing the Feasibility of Waste for Life in the Western Province of Sri Lanka

The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature

Author : Deborah L. Madsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317693183
Total Pages : 719 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature written by Deborah L. Madsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature engages the multiple scenes of tension — historical, political, cultural, and aesthetic — that constitutes a problematic legacy in terms of community identity, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, language, and sovereignty in the study of Native American literature. This important and timely addition to the field provides context for issues that enter into Native American literary texts through allusions, references, and language use. The volume presents over forty essays by leading and emerging international scholars and analyses: regional, cultural, racial and sexual identities in Native American literature key historical moments from the earliest period of colonial contact to the present worldviews in relation to issues such as health, spirituality, animals, and physical environments traditions of cultural creation that are key to understanding the styles, allusions, and language of Native American Literature the impact of differing literary forms of Native American literature. This collection provides a map of the critical issues central to the discipline, as well as uncovering new perspectives and new directions for the development of the field. It supports academic study and also assists general readers who require a comprehensive yet manageable introduction to the contexts essential to approaching Native American Literature. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the past, present and future of this literary culture. Contributors: Joseph Bauerkemper, Susan Bernardin, Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez, Kirby Brown, David J. Carlson, Cari M. Carpenter, Eric Cheyfitz, Tova Cooper, Alicia Cox, Birgit Däwes, Janet Fiskio, Earl E. Fitz, John Gamber, Kathryn N. Gray, Sarah Henzi, Susannah Hopson, Hsinya Huang, Brian K. Hudson, Bruce E. Johansen, Judit Ágnes Kádár, Amelia V. Katanski, Susan Kollin, Chris LaLonde, A. Robert Lee, Iping Liang, Drew Lopenzina, Brandy Nālani McDougall, Deborah Madsen, Diveena Seshetta Marcus, Sabine N. Meyer, Carol Miller, David L. Moore, Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Mark Rifkin, Kenneth M. Roemer, Oliver Scheiding, Lee Schweninger, Stephanie A. Sellers, Kathryn W. Shanley, Leah Sneider, David Stirrup, Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr., Tammy Wahpeconiah

Shadow Distance

Author : Gerald Vizenor
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 081957273X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Shadow Distance written by Gerald Vizenor and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging collection of fiction, essays, poetry and more by the acclaimed Native American author of Bearheart and Interior Landscapes. Gerald Vizenor is one of our era’s most important and prolific Native American writers. Drawing on the best work of an acclaimed career, Shadow Distance: A Gerald Vizenor Reader reveals the wide range of his imagination and the evolution of his central themes. This compelling collection includes not only selections from Vizenor’s innovative fiction, but also poetry, autobiography, essays, journalism, and the previously unpublished screenplay “Harold of Orange,” winner of the Film-in-the-Cities national screenwriting competition. Whether focusing on Native American tricksters or legal and financial claims of tribal sovereignty, Vizenor continually underscores the diversities of modern traditions, the mixed ethnicity that characterizes those who claim Native American origin, and cultural permeability of an increasingly commercial, global world.

Mirror Writing

Author : Thomas Claviez
Publisher : Galda & Wilch
ISBN 13 : 9783931397258
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book Mirror Writing written by Thomas Claviez and published by Galda & Wilch. This book was released on 2000 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Perspectives on American Literature

Author : Ishteyaque Shams
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN 13 : 9788126903931
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives on American Literature written by Ishteyaque Shams and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2004 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book, New Perspectives On American Literature Presents A Scholarly Study Of American Literature Right From The Beginning To The Present Time. It Includes Discussions On American Women S Drama, American Fiction And Recent American Poetry By Eminent Scholars Of Russia, Spain And Finland. Besides These, There Are Highly Scholarly Studies Of Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, John Updike, John A. Williams, James Baldwin, Katherine Anne Porter, Mark Strand And Richard Wright By The Eminent Scholars From The North To The South Of India. The Book Would Be Useful For Both The Teachers And The Students Of American Literature.