Modernity in Motion: Reading Gerald Vizenor in Global Contexts

Modernity in Motion offers a groundbreaking exploration of Anishinaabe writer Gerald Vizenor's richly layered body of work spanning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Through the lens of transnational Indigenous studies, this compelling study reveals how Vizenor's concept of transmotion, which he defines as the interplay between local and global identities, reconstructs modernity as a dynamic force of transformation.

Close readings illuminate Vizenor's radical storytelling, which bridges seem...