{"product_id":"extant-9781611865738","title":"Extant","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJenny L. Davis\u003c\/b\u003e is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and an associate professor of anthropology and American Indian studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she is the director of the American Indian Studies Program and a founding co-director of the Center for Indigenous Science. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer research has been published in the \u003ci\u003eAnnual Review of Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Anthropologist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Linguistic Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGender and Language\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLanguage \u0026amp; Communication\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCollections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Biological Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Routledge Companion to Public Humanities Scholarship\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. Her creative work has most recently been published in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Indian Culture and Research Journal\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSAPIENS\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eTransmotion\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eANMLY\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSanta Ana River Review\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eBroadsided\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eNorth Dakota Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eYellow Medicine Review\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAs\/Us\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eRaven Chronicles Journal.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe is the recipient of two book prizes: the 2019 Beatrice Medicine Award from the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures for \u003ci\u003eTalking Indian: Identity and Language Revitalization in the Chickasaw Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e and the 2014 Ruth Benedict Book Prize from the Association for Queer Anthropology and the American Anthropological Association for her coedited volume \u003ci\u003eQueer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2021 she received the Dynamic Woman of the Year Award from the Chickasaw Nation, which is given annually for significant contributions to the Chickasaw Nation and its people through community engagement and work preserving its linguistic and cultural heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Michigan State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51834675298578,"sku":"9781611865738","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7877c87b-5056-4634-9727-e4e5b319d63a.jpg?v=1767099384","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/extant-9781611865738","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}