NeMLA Convention, March 15-18, 2012, Rochester, NY

This roundtable aims to join the discussion in Native studies about American Indian Literary Nationalism, addressing such questions as: What are ethical critical practices in scholarship on Native writers? How do critics and teachers avoid an approach to reading and discussing Native literatures that replicates a colonizing framework? How does the position of American Indian literary nationalism influence the work of Native and non-Native scholars and teachers of American Indian literature? Send 300-500 word abstracts to jdymond@spfldcol.edu