Presented By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Globalizing the Word
Transnationalism and the Making of Native American Literature
This symposium will examine the influence of globalization and transnationalism on the "making" of Native American literature. Including fifteen distinguished scholars and writers, this meeting will engage the reigning critical paradigm in Native American literary studies–tribal nationalism–and consider the promises (or potential pitfalls) of taking more decidedly transnational approaches to the production and criticism of Native American literature in a global age.
Distinguishing between “Native American” and “Indigenous,” we will focus on the transnational dimensions and implications of published or performed writing and oratory by Natives working in the North American context. Among other questions, we will ask: what transnational technologies, laws, and cultural forces have influenced the making of Native American literature, and how? Conversely, how has Native American literature influenced the making of other literatures, aesthetics, rhetorical traditions and political movements around the world? And what is at stake in these very questions?
We will pursue these issues and the ethical and political questions they broach in four plenary panels–and two keynote lectures–across two days. These topics will include theories of transnationalism in literary, cultural, and Native American studies, as well as histories and representations of Indian travels across the “Red Atlantic” and elsewhere. We will explore histories of the book and other communication technologies in Native America, and move toward an integrative yet critical approach to global indigenous identities, cultures, and politics.
Keynote lectures by Philip Deloria (Friday 1 PM) and Gerald Vizenor (Saturday 2 PM)
See conference website for full program.
Speakers: Chadwick Allen, Eric Cheyfitz, Matt Cohen, Philip Deloria, Lincoln Faller, Kate Flint, Shari Huhndorf, Maureen Konkle, Arnold Krupat, Scott Richard Lyons, Elvira Pulitano, Phillip H. Round, Sean Kicummah Teuton, Gerald Vizenor, Jace Weaver
Co-sponsored by the Office of Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, the National Center for Institutional Diversity, and the Department of Anthropology
Distinguishing between “Native American” and “Indigenous,” we will focus on the transnational dimensions and implications of published or performed writing and oratory by Natives working in the North American context. Among other questions, we will ask: what transnational technologies, laws, and cultural forces have influenced the making of Native American literature, and how? Conversely, how has Native American literature influenced the making of other literatures, aesthetics, rhetorical traditions and political movements around the world? And what is at stake in these very questions?
We will pursue these issues and the ethical and political questions they broach in four plenary panels–and two keynote lectures–across two days. These topics will include theories of transnationalism in literary, cultural, and Native American studies, as well as histories and representations of Indian travels across the “Red Atlantic” and elsewhere. We will explore histories of the book and other communication technologies in Native America, and move toward an integrative yet critical approach to global indigenous identities, cultures, and politics.
Keynote lectures by Philip Deloria (Friday 1 PM) and Gerald Vizenor (Saturday 2 PM)
See conference website for full program.
Speakers: Chadwick Allen, Eric Cheyfitz, Matt Cohen, Philip Deloria, Lincoln Faller, Kate Flint, Shari Huhndorf, Maureen Konkle, Arnold Krupat, Scott Richard Lyons, Elvira Pulitano, Phillip H. Round, Sean Kicummah Teuton, Gerald Vizenor, Jace Weaver
Co-sponsored by the Office of Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, the National Center for Institutional Diversity, and the Department of Anthropology
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