Survivance - Wikipedia There he explains that "Survivance is an active sense of presence, the continuance of native stories, not a mere reaction, or a survivable name Native survivance stories are renunciations of dominance, tragedy and victimry" [3]
Survivance - Political Theology Network Survivance is one of a long list of what Kimberly Blaeser labels “Vizenorese,” an ever-lengthening list of terms and neologisms Vizenor deploys in his work Of these, survivance is arguably the most important, the most widely used by others, and the most misunderstood
Survivance – The Decolonial Dictionary “Survivance”, in this sense, names the conjunction between resistance and survival – calling attention to the fact that not only have Indigenous peoples survived the genocidal ambitions of settler colonialism, but have continued to enliven their cultures in fluid, critical and generative ways
Survivance: Learning Contexts: Learning NAGPRA: Indiana University . . . One important author who has written about this issue is Gerald Vizenor, who coined the term “survivance ” He gives this definition of the term: an active sense of presence, the continuance of native stories, not a mere reaction, or a survivable name
Decolonizing the Archive: Indigenous People and Survivance “Survivance is an active resistance and repudiation of dominance, obtrusive themes of tragedy, nihilism, and victimry The practices of survivance create an active presence Native stories are the sources of survivance”
Native Liberty: Natural Reason and Cultural Survivance on JSTOR The practices of survivance, however, are obvious and unmistakable in native stories The nature of survivance creates a sense of narrative resistance to absence, literary tragedy, nihility, and victimry