Conference
Reading the Quest for Survival: Native American Writing in Academe
Author
- Pamela Schipull (Iowa State University)
Abstract
The Native American civil rights movement should be understood as a response to a history of oppression: a history that remembers the uprooting, dispossession, and marginalization of a people. Native American literature addresses this history of oppression, but also speaks to a people's struggle to defend their civil rights and maintain their culture. Presenters will map out the ways that Native American civil rights issues are developed in Native American writing, considering especially the place and possibility of Native American literature in the academic setting.