A guitar and dobro played simultaneously , sort of. Inspired by Debashish Battacharya

was excised like a human tumor from her life, we visited Bobbi-Jo at Dunkin Donuts, where she worked. She gave me a coffee and Pepper asked me to take Brick for a walk so they could spend ten minutes together. I took the coffee and the dog and…

A postindian is a person formerly referred to through the caricature of manifest manners as an Indian. The postindian is a presence. There is nothing to believe here. Postindian warriors can be honorable or dishonorable and anywhere in between…

The word manifest manners arose out of Vizenor's experience with educators at Park Rapids High School in northern Minnesota. It describes a curious kind of racialist way of approaching native people (students at first) with a deference toward…

Honor is about relation. It is about the creation of a more suitable world. It is the reification of values in conduct. Honor is not a title, it is a way of practicing being in relation with oneself and community. Honor is built by sharing stories…

The double other is a construct of the literature of dominance. Native persons are cast as characters, pronouns which describe opposite ends of savagism and salvation. Colonizers then seek to inhabit these imagined native others, and replace…

Narrative chance is the fourth of four postmodern conditons invigorating the critique and discourse of native and postindian lit. One of Vizenor's many dichotomies. Irony plays a major role in understanding how the colonizing mindset views civilization…

A presence is implied in an absence is implied in a presence. Beyond that circular comparison, Vizenor's absence and presence bear meaningful comparison to Silko's dichotomy between people who practice distinction and subtlety and those who minimize…

Manifest Manners is a book written through interpretation. It is a translation of reality into colonial English. Vizenor demonstrates trickster hermeneutics by employing definitions in multiple dimensions at once. To thoroughly diagram the web…