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Trans-Atlantic Indigeneity : Indigenous Literary Presence in Europe

University of British Columbia. Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies; University of British Columbia. Centre for Migration Studies

This presentation will examine how active Indigenous presence from Turtle Island has been depicted in novels, short stories, film, autobiography, and literary criticism by contemporary Indigenous authors and filmmakers across the pond. Looking at diasporic Indigenous people who have travelled to Europe or have made Europe their second home, while still upholding their Indigenous languages and lifeways to their home communities and kin, this talk approaches the work of the “greats” of Indigenous literary arts, including Silko, Welch, and King, to evaluate their depiction of distinctive Indigenous lifeways amid disparate historical and cultural contexts, seeking to centre Indigenous presence as it happens in the European context and beyond.

eng

2022-02-16

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/80840

Unreviewed

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/