RESPONSES TO THE LAW IN FIRST NATIONS LITERATURE.
Proposals are invited for this special session exploring treatments of the
law in Native American writing at the Midwest Modern Language Association
Conference in Chicago, November 7-9. Papers may examine authors from any
historical period and geographical region in North America. The panel aims
to generate discussion of the different literary modes indigenous authors
deploy to assert individual agency and tribal sovereignty where these have
been eroded by the law. Related issues might include: * Deracination (e.g.
the allotment of reservations; the policy of Termination; land claims) *
Residential / Boarding Schools* Child Custody and Welfare * Justice and
Incarceration (e.g. the overrepresentation of Native peoples in Canadian
and American prisons) * Oral history as legal testimony Please submit a 1-2
page abstract and brief vitae to Deena Rymhs, Department of English,
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, 7dmr@qlink.queensu.ca
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Midwest Modern Language Association
302 English/Philosophy Building
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1408
Tel: 319/335-0331
Fax: 319/335-3123
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