Extant : poems /
The second poetry collection by author Jenny L. Davis (Chickasaw), Extant confronts the many ways in which Native Americans continue to be associated with the distant past. For more than a century, anthropologists, museum guides and high school teachers have described Native American bodies, culture...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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East Lansing :
Michigan State University Press,
[2026].
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| Series: | American Indian studies series (East Lansing, Mich.)
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| Summary: | The second poetry collection by author Jenny L. Davis (Chickasaw), Extant confronts the many ways in which Native Americans continue to be associated with the distant past. For more than a century, anthropologists, museum guides and high school teachers have described Native American bodies, cultures and languages as "endangered" or "almost extinct." Davis rewrites the narrative of what it means to exist, to live in a present shaped by colonial violence, in poems that emphasizes the power of survival. Drawing on online question forums, scientific studies, kitschy decor and the day-to-day musings of an Indigiqueer Native woman, Extant stages encounters of Native survival within a world full of stars, cicadas, earthworms and moss. |
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| Physical Description: | 78 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781611865738 1611865735 |