Enduring Critical Poses

Enduring Critical Poses examines the stories, poems, plays, and histories centered in the Great Lakes region of North America, where the Anishinaabeg live in a space Basil Johnston referred to as "Maazikamikwe," a maternal earth. The Anishinaabeg are a confederacy of many communities, including the Odawa, Saulteaux, Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Oji-Cree, and Algonquin peoples, who share cultural practices and related languages. Bringing together senior scholars and new voices on the Anishinaabe intellectual landscape, this volume specifically explores Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi culture, language, and literary heritage. Through a tribal-centric framework, the contributors connect various branches of Native American literary studies and celebrate Anishinaabe narrative diversity to offer a single, overarching story of Anishinaabe survival and endurance.

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Gordon Henry Jr., Margaret Noodin, and David Stirrup

Part I: Majikawiz

1. Louise Erdrich'sBooks and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Writing, Being, Healing, Place
Chris LaLonde

2. The Old World Display and the New World Displaced
Nichole Biber

3. An Indian's Journey and Tribal Memory: David Treuer'sRez Life
Padraig Kirwan

Part II: Bakaawiz

4. The Anishinaabe Eco-Poetics of Language, Life, and Place in the Poetry of Schoolcraft, Noodin, Blaeser, and Henry
Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez

5. Ambiguity and Empathy in the Poetry of Gordon Henry Jr.
Stuart Rieke

6. Justicein absentia: The Re-stor(y)ing of Native Legal Presence through Narratives of Survivance in Gerald Vizenor's "Genocide Tribunals"
Sharon Holm

Part III: Jiibayaaboozo

7. The Exceptional Power of the Dead in Heid E. Erdrich'sNational Monuments
Deborah L. Madsen

8. Anishinaabe Being and the Fallen God of Sun-Worshiping Victorians
Carter Meland

Part IV: Nanabozho

9. Beyond the Borders of Blood: An Anishinaaabe Tribalography of Identity
Jill Doerfler

10. Enduring Critical Poses, Beyond Nation and History: The Legacy and Life of Anishinaabeg Literature and Letters
Margaret Noodin

11. Enduring Cultural Poses: Memory, Resistance, and Symbolic Sculpture
David Stirrup

Afterword
Gordon Henry Jr. and Margaret Noodin

Contributors
Index