Contemporary Indigenous popular culture is a dynamic and expansive cultural field that has been gaining increasing momentum since the turn of the twenty-first century. This edited collection brings together contributions by scholars, artists and practitioners who work with and in the field of Indigenous popular culture in various capacities, from different standpoints and in a range of geopolitical contexts. This approach aims at promoting a dialogue between diverse sites of knowledge production of and on the Indigenous popular at the same time as it reflects the multivocal, multimedial and multisited landscape of contemporary Indigenous popular culture. The contributions in the volume engage both the poetics and the politics of IndigePop, showcasing the creative and celebratory energies of Indigenous popular culture and Indigenerdity as well as their societal significance vis-à-vis Indigenous resistance, resurgence and political struggles.
Contents: Svetlana Seibel: Approaching IndigePop: Some Thoughts to Start
Conceptualizing IndigePop Sonny Assu: Reflections on «Personal Totems»
Sonny Assu: Personal Totems Lee Francis 4: Critical Nerd Theory: A Brief
Introduction Autobiographical Practice as Critical Lens in IndigePop
Richard Van Camp: Pop Life: How Pop Culture Saved My Indigenous Bacon All
These Blessed Years Red Haircrow: Succeeding Skywalker Visual and Graphic
Art Forms in IndigePop Anthony J. Thibodeau: The Force Is With Our People:
Contemporary Indigenous Artists Reimagine the Star Wars Universe James J.
Donahue: Graphic Representations of Residential Schools: Using Popular
Narrative to Teach Unpopular History Juliane Egerer: Reframing, Rewriting,
Redrawing the Past: The Creation of Decolonizing Narratives in Sámi History
Cartooning Weshoyot Alvitre: «We Are Mauna Kea» Popular Genres and Media
in IndigePop Colby Y. Miyose: Aole TMT: The Use of Songs in the We Are
Mauna Kea Movement Cécile Heim: «Its Not Me»: Displacing Alienness in
Stephen Graham Joness All the Beautiful Sinners and Not for Nothing Kati
Dlaske: Mediating Indigenous Voices: Sámi Lifestyle Blogs and the Politics of
Popular Culture Creatorship, Fandom and Critical Practice in IndigePop
Monica Flegel and Judith Leggatt: From Speculative Fiction to Indigenous
Futurism: The Decolonizing Fan Criticism of Métis in Space Voices of the
Indigenous Comic Con 2: Indigenous Popular Artists in Conversation with Kati
Dlaske and Svetlana Seibel.
Svetlana Seibel is a postdoctoral research associate in North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Saarland University, Germany. She completed her PhD on Indigenous popular culture as a member of the International Research Training Group «Diversity». Her research has been published in journals such as Transmotion, Studies in Canadian Literature and European Journal of American Studies.
Kati Dlaske is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Languages at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Previously she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Applied Linguistics at the University of Jyväskylä. Her research has been published in journals such as Language in Society, Gender and Language, Multilingua and Social Semiotics.
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