F271. Spaceships and Detectives: Native American Fiction and the Literary Genre Novel

Marquis Salon 1 & 2, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Two
Friday, February 10, 2017
4:30 pm to 5:45 pm

 

This panel will address the ways in which genre fiction, especially when it is innovative in form and content, uniquely addresses the concerns of Native people in fiction. In most fiction and art media, Natives are relegated to tiny, boring spaces. Literary realism by Native writers moves us out of these spaces, but what about beyond? This panel represents a diverse aesthetic and conceptual selection of Native genre writing today.


Participants

Moderator:

Erika T. Wurth is the author of the novel Crazyhorse's Girlfriend and the collection of poetry Indian Trains. Her work has appeared in numerous journals. She teaches creative writing at Western Illinois University and she was a guest writer at IAIA. She is Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee.

Toni Jensen is the author of the story collection From the Hilltop. Her stories have been published in journals and anthologies, including Best of the West and New Stories from the South. She teaches creative writing at the University of Arkansas. She is Métis.

David Weiden is associate professor and director of the Native American studies program at Metropolitan State University of Denver. He has published fiction in various literary magazines as well as literary criticism and a nonfiction book.

Daniel H. Wilson is a Cherokee citizen and author of the New York Times bestselling Robopocalypse and its sequel Robogenesis, as well as seven other books. He coedited the sci-fi anthologies Press Start to Play and Robot Uprisings. Wilson earned a PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.

Blake M. Hausman is the author of the novel, Riding the Trail of Tears, a futuristic revisitation of the Cherokee Removal. He is a faculty member in English at Portland Community College, and his writing has appeared in Studies in American Indian Literatures and American Indian Quarterly.

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