{"product_id":"extant-9781611865738","title":"Extant","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jenny L. Davis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Michigan State University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Michigan State University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - Native American\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second poetry collection by award-winning author Jenny L. Davis (Chickasaw), \u003ci\u003eExtant\u003c\/i\u003e confronts the many ways in which Native Americans continue to be associated with the distant past and imagined, even today, as more animal than human. 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.\" Through a combination of blackout poems, occasional poems, and free verse, Davis rewrites the narrative of what it means to exist, to live in a present shaped by colonial violence 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, \u003ci\u003eExtant\u003c\/i\u003e stages encounters of Native survival within a world full of stars, cicadas, earthworms, and moss.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michigan State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46860432769175,"sku":"9781611865738","price":1183.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781611865738.webp?v=1769955809","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/extant-9781611865738","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}