Highlighting an inspiring cross-cultural
effort that’s going on right now!
On the day when this year’s New England
American Studies Association Conference begins in Providence, it’s very
appropriate that I cede my blog over to the voice of a colleague with whom I’ve
had the good fortune to work a good deal on NEASA matters: Siobhan
Senier of the University of New Hampshire. Much of that work, like much of
Dr. Senier’s work overall, has been dedicated to highlighting and sharing
Native American voices, not only from American history but also and even
more significantly in our contemporary moment. And for a few years now she’s
been working on a culminating project to that end: an anthology of Native
American literature from New England, one assembled in conversation with
contemporary Native voices and authors.
For more on that project, I turn the blog
over to Dr. Senier, and to the blog that she and her co-editors have created to
document and extend their work in progress:
Check that out, add your comments and thoughts as the project continues,
and help shape the next generation of cross-cultural American writing,
community, and identity.
And, of course, share your responses to any
of the week’s posts, or to anything else related to Columbus Day,
cross-cultural America, and more, for the weekend’s crowd-sourced post!
Ben
PS. You know what to do!
10/12 Memory Day nominees: A tie between George Washington
Cable, who did as much for American historical
and social
understandings with his
fiction as with his political
writings; and Robert
Coles, who has done as much for
American psychology and narratives
of childhood and identity with his teaching
as with his pioneering
writings.
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