Indigenous Literatures and the Arts of Community: Editors’ Afterword

Authors

  • Sam McKegney Queen's University
  • Sarah Henzi

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14288/cl.v0i230-1.189685

Abstract

Indigenous literatures not only emerge from, depict, and address particular communities; they grapple with the meaning of community itself, while expanding our understandings of how communities might be imagined, lived, and sustained in pursuit of decolonial futures. Indigenous literatures don’t just represent communities; they call communities into being. This special issue considers what Kristina Fagan Bidwell calls “the messy multiplicity of communities” as they manifest in Indigenous literature and its study.

Author Biography

Sam McKegney, Queen's University

            Sam McKegney is a settler scholar of Indigenous literatures. He grew up in Anishinaabe territory on the Saugeen Peninsula along the shores of Lake Huron and currently resides with his partner and their two daughters in traditional lands of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples where he is an Associate Professor and Graduate Chair in the English Department at Queen’s University. He has published a collection of interviews entitled Masculindians: Conversations about Indigenous Manhood (University of Manitoba Press, 2014), a monograph entitled Magic Weapons: Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community after Residential School (University of Manitoba Press, 2007), and articles on such topics as environmental kinship, masculinity theory, prison writing, Indigenous governance, and Canadian hockey mythologies.

Published

2017-10-06

Issue

No. 230-1 (2016): Indigenous Literature and the Arts of Community

Section

Editorials