Native peoples are best known through their fugitive poses: textual and graphic depictions steeped in a modernist aesthetic of romantic victimry, tragedy, and n... » 

Native peoples are best known through their fugitive poses: textual and graphic depictions steeped in a modernist aesthetic of romantic victimry, tragedy, and nostalgia. In this volume, Gerald Vizenor argues that such representations celebrate the absence rather than the presence of the Native. «