Session Details
Monday, 28 December
287. Teaching Contemporary American Indian Literatures
3:30–4:45 p.m., 302, Philadelphia Marriott
Program arranged by the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures
Presiding: Joseph Bauerkemper, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
1. “Sherman Alexie’s Pawnshop Theory,” Paul B. Downes, Univ. of Toronto
2. “‘Everything One Wouldn’t Expect’: Teaching Historically Situated Native Drama,” Katherine L. Y. Evans, Univ. of Texas, Austin
3. “Magical Realism and Magical Words in Contemporary American Indian Novels: Teaching Language’s Power to Reveal and Transform What Is Real,” James Ottery, Univ. of Illinois, Springfield
4. “Dream Hunting: Tracking Big Game in the 1634 Relation of Paul le Jeune and Louise Erdrich’s Tracks,” Andrew Lopenzina, Sam Houston State Univ.