Incommensurability and survivance
Native North American literature and federal law
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2178518 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maggie Ann Bowers (0000-0003-4754-8033) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 457-467 |
| Publication date | 2010-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449855.2010.517047 |
| OpenAlex | W2074194418 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
This essay analyses the frequent portrayal of courtroom scenes by Native American writers in which Native American rhetoric is employed subversively by fictional defendants and witnesses. I argue that these portrayals challenge the assumptions and power of federal legal rhetoric, with an insistence upon the cultural difference between European American and Native American belief systems. By employing Homi Bhabha's concept of incommensurability in dialogue with Gerald Vizenor's concept of Native American survivance, the essay proposes that the employment of Native American rhetoric is a performance of cultural difference that challenges dominant American ideology in an act of survivance. Keywords: Native Americannarrative fictionsurvivanceincommensurabilitylawrhetoric
American literature · Art · Ideology · Linguistics · Literature · Native american · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Anthropology · Jury Decision Making Processes · Law in Society and Culture · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |