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SUMMARY:CUSO Workshop: Literary Texts and Legal Epistemologies in North American Indigenous Studies
DESCRIPTION:Guest Speaker: Prof. Jill Doerfler (University of Minnesota-Dul
 uth); Organizers: Patrizia Zanella and Prof. Thomas Austenfeld\n\nThis work
 shop aims to cater to doctoral students interested in the intersections bet
 ween legal epistemologies and literary expressions. Critical readings of le
 gal documents are especially urgent for scholars interested in literary pro
 ductions by individuals pertaining to social groups that are often excluded
  from the process of legal construction in mainstream society. As Marlee Kl
 ine notes in her article “The Colour of Law: Ideological Representations of
  First Nations in Legal Discourse” (1994): “Law provides one of the discour
 ses in which racism is constructed, reproduced and reinforced. Law has been
  and continues to be implicated in racist processes in a variety of ways” (
 452).\n\nThe multiplicity of ways in which Indigenous people in North Ameri
 ca are regulated by federal and provincial/ territorial/ state law means th
 at legal discourse pervades and affects the everyday life of Indigenous peo
 ple and, therefore, the everyday life of Indigenous characters in literary 
 texts. As a consequence, it is indispensable to develop a basic legal under
 standing in order to better read, analyze, and teach Indigenous literatures
 . This is especially important in order to understand Indigeneity as a poli
 tical rather than an ethnic category. The mantel of ethnic literatures unde
 r which Native American authors are often subsumed erases Indigenous sovere
 ignty and participates in the colonial project of eliminating the “Indian” 
 as an inconvenient political category as Cherokee writer and scholar Thomas
  King put it in his 2012 bestseller The Inconvenient Indian. Instead, in th
 e inherently interdisciplinary field of Indigenous studies, scholars and wr
 iters alike are intent on revitalizing Indigenous legal epistemologies.\n\n
 The workshop aims to attract a broad segment of doctoral students intereste
 d in considering legal aspects. While the keynote and the article selection
  will focus primarily on the intersections between law and literature in a 
 North American Indian context, questions of interdisciplinarity, methodolog
 y, and the mutually constitutive nature of law and literature will be trans
 ferable to other fields of English literatures.\n\nhttps://english.cuso.ch/
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LOCATION:University of Fribourg
DTSTAMP:20190917T130626Z
DTSTART:20191003T080000Z
DTEND:20191003T160000Z
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