Native Provenance: The Betrayal of Cultural Creativity

by Gerald Vizenor

Gerald Vizenor's Native Provenance challenges readers to consider the subtle ironies at the heart of Native American culture and oral traditions such as creation and trickster stories and dream songs. A respected authority in the study of Native American literature and intellectual history, Vizenor believes that the protean nature of many creation stories, with their tease and weave of ironic gestures, was lost or obfuscated in inferior translations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496216717
• ISBN13: 9781496216717
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.2" x 8.8"