Before revision: History Survivance was originally a legal term, but fell out of use in the 18th century.See OED The word was subsequently utilized in the 20th century by francophone Canadians as "La Survivance," and also employed by the French theorist Jacques Derrida to denote a spectral existence that would be neither life nor death.Maurizio Calbi, Spectral Shakespeares: Media Adaptations in the Twenty-First Century (London: Palgrave, 2013), p. 165 Usage It was first employed in the context of Native American Studies by the Anishinaabe cultural theorist Gerald Vizenor, in his 1999 book Manifest Manners: Narratives on Postindian Survivance.Gerald Vizenor, Manifest Manners: Narratives on Postindian Survivance (Lincoln: Nebraska, 1999) There he explains that "Survivance is an active sense of presence, the continuance of native stories, not a mere reaction, or a survivable name.
After revision: History Survivance was originally a legal term, but fell out of use in the 18th century.See OED The word was subsequently utilized in the 20th century by francophone Canadians as "La Survivance," and also employe by the French theorist Jacques Derrida to denote a spectral existence that would be neither life nor death.Maurizio Calbi, Spectral Shakespeares: Media Adaptations in the Twenty-First Century (London: Palgrave, 2013), p. 165 Usage It was first employed in the context of Native American Studies by the Anishinaabe cultural theorist Gerald Vizenor, in his 1999 book Manifest Manners: Narratives on Postindian Survivance.Gerald Vizenor, Manifest Manners: Narratives on Postindian Survivance (Lincoln: Nebraska, 1999) There he explains that "Survivance is an active sense of presence, the continuance of native stories, not a mere reaction, or a survivable name.