Indigenous (Literary) Networks
Although ‘Indigenous literature’ often becomes a shorthand for the writing of Indigenous communities from a particular country, the term ‘Indigenous’ can draw our attention to networks that are not bounded by states. In this course we will think about Indigenous creative texts in the context of global Indigenous networks as well as in the context of other intellectual and activist work of the specific Indigenous communities from which they emerge. We will also think about a particular history and function of anthologies in Indigenous literary worlds, and will consider what insights Indigenous literary networks can contribute to how we understand other (activist, diplomatic, cultural, environmental) Indigenous networks.
- Chadwick Allen. Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies. (Minn 2012)
- Caroline Sinavaiana & James Thomas Stevens. Mohawk/Samoa: Transmigrations. (Subpress 2006)
- Joy Harjo (ed). When the Light of the World Was Subdued Our Songs Came Through (Norton 2020)
- Allison Whittaker Fire Front: First Nations poetry and power today. (UQP 2020)
- Kelly Wisecup. Assembled for Use: Indigenous compilation and the archives of early Native American literature. (Yale 2021)
- Craig Womack. Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism. (Minn 1999)