Global Native Literary Studies--Panelist Daniel Justice Presents
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2013-07-19
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Daniel Justice presents on the Global Native Literary Studies panel.
Global Native Literary Studies: This panel provides an opportunity to reflect on Indigenous worlds and Indigenous literary worlds.
Through their fiction as well as their political, institutional, scholarly and cultural work, each of the panelists has explored the range of ways and reasons for Indigenous engagement with literary arts. Chantal Spitz’s character Tetiare (in English translation) “washes away… dirt by writing.” Albert Wendt’s character Alapati is encouraged for his ability “to story our lives history and refusal to become nothing.” Daniel Justice’s character Tobhi recalls Strivix counseling a Dragonfly who claims “I don’t know how to be a Dragonfly” with the suggestion “All ye got to do it tell yer people’s story, and ye’ll figure it out.”
What questions, aspirations and political ‘lines in the sand’ have underpinned ‘Global Native Literary Studies’? What lessons have been learned in Indigenous and Pacific worlds about writing, regionalism and ‘the global’? What strengths and dimensions of Indigenous Studies and Pacific Studies could contribute to scholars and students grappling with the notion of ‘World Literature’? What Samoan, Tahitian and Cherokee concepts could contribute to scholars and students grappling with the notion of ‘World Literature’?
Rather than proposing how or why Indigenous and Pacific texts might be included in a concept of (and classes about) ‘World Literature’ on the basis of the fact these too are ‘part of the world,’ the panelists will be invited to suggest how ‘World Literature,’ Pacific and Indigenous Literary worlds might mutually engage.
Moderator: Alice Te Punga Somerville
Panelists: Chantal Spitz, Daniel Justice, Albert Wendt
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Daniel Justice, connection of indigeneity to the world, Idle No More, Canada, indigenous women in Canada, peaceful activism, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, English intrusion into the Cherokee mountains, Appalachia, being at the center of the world, Cherokee, World Literature, the world in World Literature, culture as a costume, Alice Te Punga Somerville, "It's a small world" version of World Literature, the importance of humility, understanding and humility, the more we learn, the less we know, language of mastery as the language of domination and control, knowledge as possession and exploitation, the danger of understanding without humility, embracing mystery, Gitche Manitou, Cristina Bacchilega, honoring mysteries of human experience, untranslatability, teaching Indigenous Studies, understanding with humility, globalization, globalization and commodification, giving up mastery for modesty, English-speaking Cherokee, Cherokee Nation, University of British Columbia, First Nations Studies Program, Musqueam people, University of British Columbia, imperialism and sense of belonging, belonging and privilege, belonging and responsibility, Kimo Keaulana, intimacy in teachings, collaboration as a necessity, not an option, all things are not meant for all people, living in a place versus belonging to it, the importance of treading lightly, the politics of the center, the center of the world, how seeking sameness makes us blind to what makes us human
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