Date of Award

6-2014

Document Type

Masters Thesis

Degree Name

M.A.

Organizational Unit

College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, English and Literary Arts

First Advisor

Billy Stratton

Keywords

Creative writing, Fiction

Abstract

This paper explores the conceptions and representations of Native identity in a social and political context through the interpretations of Gerald Vizeonor’s, survivance and Stephen Graham Jone’s, Ledfeather. Native identity in the United States cannot be separated from the founding of the New World and the settlement of the West, like Native stories it is successive and continuous across generations. By interpreting the aesthetics of survivance, favoring presence over absence and utilizing dendrochronology and dendroclimatology it is possible to trace the presence of Native stories across time and space.

Publication Statement

Copyright is held by the author. This work may only be accessed by members of the University of Denver community. The work is provided by permission of the author for individual research purposes only and may not be further copied or distributed. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.

Rights Holder

Sierra D. Fredricksen

Provenance

Received from author

File Format

application/pdf

Language

en

File Size

74 pgs

Discipline

Creative writing

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