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Cultural Continuance (Native American) Theory

Cultural Continuance (Native American) Theory. Ms. Nicole CIS Lit. Perspectives on Cultural Continuance . “[Stories] aren’t just entertainment. Don’t be fooled. They are all we have, you see, All we have to fight off illness and death” ( Ceremony)

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Cultural Continuance (Native American) Theory

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  1. Cultural Continuance (Native American) Theory Ms. Nicole CIS Lit

  2. Perspectives on Cultural Continuance • “[Stories] aren’t just entertainment. • Don’t be fooled. • They are all we have, you see, • All we have to fight off illness and death” (Ceremony) • Stories are “more than survival, more than endurance or mere response.” They have the power to make, re-make, un-make the world (Vizenor, Fugitive 15).

  3. Power of Story • Disney’s Pocahontas

  4. Survivance • reaction against concocted images of Indians as victims leads to “survivance”: active sense of presence over historical absence and oblivion (Vizenor) • “Self-representation of Indigenous people against distortions of White colonization and hegemony” (Greenwood, 3).

  5. Assumptions • Used for groups who have been oppressed by a dominant culture. • Myths: “noble Indian” freeze culture in romanticized past • Concentration on historical mistakes = unintended perpetuation of stereotypes

  6. Rejecting Narratives • Cultural materialists reject single narratives • Favor multiple, historical narratives • Interested in points of rupture in grand narratives of Western history

  7. Rejecting narratives • Manifest Destiny • Cultural continuists would focus on: • Native Americans (Solar Storms) • Slaves (Frederick Douglass) • Women on the prairie (My Antonia)

  8. How to study text • MUST be read in context • Life and times of author

  9. Questions to ask: • Is a culture (NA) being frozen in the past? • Is the text an agent of change or activism? • Does the text allow for self-representation? • … And to what effect?

  10. Big Question • How does the text consider or treat traditionally marginalized/Native American people and to what effect?

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