Dreams of Languages, Visions, Multiple Constellations: Indigenous Literatures and Their Study Today

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https://doi.org/10.29173/af29505

Keywords:

Indigenous literature, francophone indigenous literature, comparative Indigenous literature

Abstract

Introduction to the special issue 

Author Biographies

Sarah Henzi, Simon Fraser University

Sarah Henzi is Assistant Professor in the Department of French and the Department of Indigenous Studies at Simon Fraser University. Her research interests include Aboriginal literatures in English and French, as well as popular culture and new media. Her work has appeared in Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne, Studies in American Indian Literatures, Translation Studies, Lettres québécoises and Canadian Literature, among others. She has also contributed to the Oxford Handbook on Indigenous American Literatures (2014), the Routledge Companion to Native American Literature (2015) and Learn, Teach, Challenge: Approaching Indigenous Literatures (2016). Her English translation of An Antane Kapesh, Eukuan Nin Matshi-Manitu Innushkueu / I Am a Damn Savage; Tanite Nene Etutamin Nitassi? What Have You Done to My Country? published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press in 2020, won the Cole Foundation Translation Prize (QWF) in 2021.

Marie-Ève Bradette, Université Laval

Marie-Eve Bradette is Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature, Theatre and Film at Université Laval, and holds the Maurice Lemire Leadership Chair in the Teaching of Native Literatures in Quebec. Her current research addresses the heterolinguality of First Peoples literature in Quebec as a modality of plural literary history. She is also interested in the representation of Aboriginal women and girls, gendered violence and the (re)signification of feminine knowledge, particularly in residential school literature. Her work has appeared in the journals Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne, Les Cahiers du CIÉRA, @nalyses, Captures and Voix plurielles, among others. She is the author of an annual column on Native Studies in the journal Voix et images. Her book Langues en portage: résurgence littéraire et langagière dans les littératures autochtones au féminin will be published in 2024 by Presses de l'Université de Montréal.

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2023-12-15

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Henzi, S., & Bradette, M.- Ève. (2023). Dreams of Languages, Visions, Multiple Constellations: Indigenous Literatures and Their Study Today. ALTERNATIVE FRANCOPHONE, 3(3), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.29173/af29505

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Vol. 3 No. 3 (2023): Imagining Linguistic and Theoretical Constellations for the Study of Indigenous Literatures

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