title: Manifest Manners: Narratives on Postindian Survivance
author: Gerald Vizenor
description: "Combining postmodern and postcolonial cultural theories with the comic wisdom of the tribal trickster, Vizenor analyzes aspects of contemporary Native American culture. He eschews what he terms 'terminal creeds, ' that is, views of Native Americans that fix them in a certain cultural pose -- usually established by anthropologists and romanticizers -- and out of which they can never evolve without destroying their identity. . . .(Vizenor is) the foremost postmodern theorist of Native American literatures and cultures." -- San Francisco Chronicle
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  Devereux
  
  
  ADVERTISEMENT TO THE PRESENT EDITION.
  
  DEDICATORY EPISTLE
  
  THE AUTOBIOGRAPHER'S INTRODUCTION.
  
  NOTE TO THE PRESENT EDITION (1852).
  
  
  DEVEREUX.
  
  [BOOK I.](Devereux_split_001.html#filepos40493)
  
  
    
    
  [CHAPTER I. OF THE HERO'S BIRTH AND
  
  
  PARENTAGE.—NOTHING CAN DIFFER MORE FROM THE END OF THINGS THAN THEIR
  
  
  BEGINNING.  
    
  [CHAPTER II. A FAMILY CONSULTATION.—A PRIEST, AND
  
  
  AN ERA IN LIFE.  
    
  [CHAPTER III. A CHANGE IN CONDUCT AND IN CHARACTER:
  
  
  OUR EVIL PASSIONS WILL SOMETIMES PRODUCE GOOD EFFECTS; AND ON THE
  
  
  CONTRARY, AN ALTERATION FOR THE BETTER IN MANNERS WILL, NOT
  
  
  UNFREQUENTLY, HAVE AMONGST ITS CAUSES A LITTLE CORRUPTION OF MIND; FOR
  
  
  THE FEELINGS ARE SO BLENDED THAT, IN SUPPRESSING THOSE DISAGREEABLE TO
  
  
  OTHERS, WE OFTEN SUPPRESS THOSE WHICH ARE AMIABLE IN THEMSELVES.  
    
  [CHAPTER IV. A CONTEST OF ART AND A LEAGUE OF
  
  
  FRIENDSHIP.—TWO CHARACTERS IN MUTUAL IGNORANCE OF EACH OTHER, AND THE
  
  
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