Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literatures

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Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literatures is a critical work by Gerald Vizenor that examines Native American literature through the lens of postmodern theory, emphasizing narrative play, survivance, and the subversion of dominant colonial discourses.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book ⓘ critical work ⓘ
academicDiscipline	Native American studies ⓘ cultural studies ⓘ literary studies ⓘ
addresses	hybridity in Native American writing ⓘ issues of representation of Native peoples ⓘ tensions between oral tradition and written text ⓘ
aimsTo	highlight Native agency in storytelling ⓘ reframe Native American texts beyond victimry ⓘ
author	Gerald Vizenor NERFINISHED ⓘ
context	development of Native American literary criticism ⓘ late 20th-century literary theory ⓘ
contribution	articulates the concept of survivance in literary criticism ⓘ challenges essentialist views of Native American identity ⓘ links Native American narrative strategies to postmodern play ⓘ
critiques	colonial representations of Native Americans ⓘ ethnographic authority ⓘ realist expectations of Native American texts ⓘ
emphasizesConcept	narrative chance ⓘ survivance ⓘ trickster discourse ⓘ
focusesOn	narrative play in Native American literatures ⓘ postmodern discourse in Native American writing ⓘ subversion of dominant colonial narratives ⓘ
genre	Native American literary criticism ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ
hasKeyTerm	narrative chance ⓘ postindian ⓘ survivance ⓘ trickster ⓘ
intendedAudience	researchers in postcolonial studies ⓘ scholars of Native American literature ⓘ students of literary theory ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
mainSubject	Native American literature NERFINISHED ⓘ colonial discourse ⓘ narrative theory ⓘ postmodern theory ⓘ survivance ⓘ
proposes	reading Native American texts as sites of resistance ⓘ understanding Native narratives as active performances ⓘ
relatedWorkOfAuthor	Gerald Vizenor NERFINISHED ⓘ
theoreticalApproach	deconstruction ⓘ postmodernism ⓘ poststructuralism ⓘ

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