CALL FOR PAPERS – Indigenous Writing and Culture of North America – Canada and the United States

 

The Literary Encyclopedia at www.litencyc.com is looking for qualified writers to enhance its coverage of Indigenous writing and culture of the United States and Canada. The list below is not comprehensive or final, and new proposals of writers/ works/context essays that are not currently listed in our database are also welcome. However, we will prioritize articles on writers and works frequently studied in university courses, and those that are highly topical and well-known.

 

All offers of contribution should come accompanied by an up-to-date CV and, in the case of doctoral students who wish to offer a contribution, also a short writing sample. The overwhelming majority (about 90%) of our contributors are academic scholars, while the remaining percentage is made up of highly endorsed doctoral students and independent researchers.

 

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We hope that you will wish to join us in this enterprise. If you wish to contribute, please contact the volume editors (see below), or the managing editor, Dr Cristina Sandru (cristinasandru@litencyc.com).

Volume Editors: Dr Padraig Kirwan (p.kirwan@gold.ac.uk); Dr Sarah Henzi (sal.henzi@umontreal.ca).

 

 

LIST OF LITERARY AND CULTURAL ARTICLES THAT WE ARE SEEKING

 

Two-Spirit Literature

Language Revitalization

Indigenous Knowledge/Indigenous Knowledge and the Academy

Indigenous Feminisms

Indigenous Masculinities

Indigenous Sovereignty

Indigenous theatre

Tribal Citizenship

Visual Cultures

Indigenous Genres

Embodiment

Idle No More and twenty-first century political activism

Industrial boarding schools and their legacy for indigenous communities

Relocation and 21st century responses to Relocation

The Native American Renaissance

 

LIST OF GENERAL (life and work) AUTHOR-PROFILES and WORKS WE URGENTLY REQUIRE (MANY OF THESE AUTHORS ARE CURRENTLY ON VARIOUS SYLLABI AND WE NEED ENTRIES ASAP)

 

Sherman Alexie

Paula Gunn Allen

Kimberly M. Blaeser

Heid E. Erdrich

Eric Gansworth

Diane Glancy

Linda LeGarde Grover

Gordon Henry

Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins

LeAnne Howe

Rex Lee Jim

Emily Pauline Johnson

Stephen Graham Jones

Maurice Kenny

Thomas King

Adrian C. Louis

Simon J. Ortiz

Susan Power

Haunani-Kay Trask

Richard Van Camp

 

 

LIST OF GENERAL (life and work) AUTHOR-PROFILES and WORKS WE ARE SEEKING ARTICLES FOR

 

Jeannette Armstrong

Jim Barnes

Shonto Begay

D. L. Birchfield

Sherwin Bitsui

Gertrude Simmons Bonnin

Elias Boudinot

Joseph Bruchac

Margaret Bruchac

Sophia Alice Callahan

A.A. Carr

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

Santee Frazier

Evelina Zuni Lucero

John Joseph Mathews

Durango Mendoza

Monique Mojica

Marijo Moore

Phillip Carroll Morgan

Beatrice Culleton Mosionier

Mourning Dove

Jim Northrup

Samson Occom

Simon Pokagon

Alexander Lawrence Posey

Carter Revard

Lynn Riggs

Eden Robinson

Wendy Rose

Ralph Salisbury

Greg Sarris

Cheryl Savageau

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft

Kim Shuck

Tim Tingle

Anna Lee Walters

Sarah Winnemucca

Craig S. Womack

 

LIST OF INDIVIDUAL WORKS WE ARE SEEKING ARTICLES FOR

 

Jeannette Armstrong, Slash

Jim Barnes, On a Wing of the Sun

Shonto Begay, visions and voices across the Mesa

D. L. Birchfield, Field of Honor

Sherwin Bitsui, Flood Song

Kimberly M. Blaeser, Trailing You: Poems

Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, Dreams and Thunder: Stories, Poems, and the Sun Dance Opera

Margaret Bruchac, Dreaming Again: Algonkian Poetry

Sophia Alice Callahan, Wynema, a Child of the Forest

Maria Campbell, Half Breed

George Copway, The life, letters and speeches of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh, or G. Copway, Chief Ojibway nation.

A.A. Carr, Eye Killers

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Crow Creek Trilogy

Debra Magpie Earling, Perma Red

Heid E. Erdrich, Cell Traffic: New and Selected Poems

Heid E. Erdrich, The Mother’s Tongue

Lee Francis, On the Good Red Interstate: Truck Stop Tellings and Other Poems

Santee Frazier, Dark Thirty

Eric Gansworth, If I Ever Get Out of Here: A Novel with Paintings

Eric Gansworth, Mending Skins

Diane Glancy, Pushing the Bear

Joy Harjo, She had some horses

Joy Harjo, In mad love and war

Tomson Highway, The Rez Sisters

Linda LeGarde Grover, The Dance Boots

Gordon Henry, The Light People

Linda Hogan, Mean Spirit

Linda Hogan, Solar Storms

LeAnne Howe, Shell Shaker

LeAnne Howe, Miko Kings

Emily Pauline Johnson, Flint and feather

Stephen Graham Jones, The Fast Red Road

Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water

Thomas King, Medicine River

Adrian C. Louis, Skins

Evelina Zuni Lucero, Night Sky, Morning Star

Lee Maracle, Ravensong

Lee Maracle, Celia’s Song

John Joseph Mathews, Sundown

N. Scott Momaday, The Ancient Child

N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain

N. Scott Momaday, The Names

Marijo Moore, The Diamond Doorknob

Beatrice Culleton Mosionier, In Search of April Raintree

Mourning Dove, Cogewea, the half blood: a depiction of the great Montana cattle range

Jim Northrup, Walking the Rez Road

Simon J. Ortiz, Out there Somewhere

Louis Owens, The Sharpest Sight

Simon Pokagon, The red man’s rebuke

Susan Power, The Grass Dancer

Carter Revard, Cowboys and Indians, Christmas Shopping

Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

John Rollin Ridge. The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit

Lynn Riggs, The Cherokee Night

Wendy Rose, Now poof she is gone

Zitkala-Ša (née Gertrude Simmons), Old Indian Legends

Ralph Salisbury, Rainbows of Stone

Greg Sarris, Grand Avenue

Cheryl Savageau, Dirt Road Home

Gregory Scofield, Singing Home the Bones

Kim Shuck, Smuggling Cherokee

Leslie Marmon Silko, Almanac of the Dead

Mary Tall Mountain, There is no word for goodbye

Luci Tapahonso, A Radiant Curve

Luci Tapahonso, Blue Horses Rush in

Haunani-Kay Trask, Light in the crevice never seen

David Treuer, Little

David Treuer, The Hiawatha

Richard Van Camp, The Lesser Blessed

Gerald Vizenor, Blue Ravens

Gerald Vizenor, Bearheart

Richard Wagamese, Dream Wheels

Anna Lee Walters, Ghost Singer

Orlando White, LETTERRS

Craig S. Womack, Drowning in Fire

William S. Yellow Robe, Jr., Where the pavement ends: five Native American plays

Ray Young Bear, Black Eagle Child