STORIES THRU THEORIES/THEORIES THRU STORIES :
NATIVE AMERICAN STORYTELLING AND CRITIQUE
Papers are invited for a volume on the creative relationship between =
Native American storytelling and literary critique.=20
In Baudrillard's view, all critique is haunted by that which it attempts =
to negate. Similarly, Derrida states that "we can pronounce not a single =
destructive proposition which has not already had to slip into the form, =
the logic, and the implicit postulations of precisely what it seeks to =
contest." Such negating and contesting motivations have often =
characterized theoretical interpretations of Native texts as well as =
subversive responses to the institutional authority of those =
interpretations, often in the form of stories. Hence, current literary =
critique operates as a kind of negation of story, and stories may =
operate as a negation of critique. However, all attempts at negating the =
other will ultimately affirm its presence, for substitution only =
outlines implication. Although according to Gerald Vizenor, "the most =
tragic experience in the world is theory," its presence in his own =
writing and teaching, just like the narrative traces inherent in all =
theoretical accounts of literature prove the impos