H-Announce CFP for MELUS 2022: The Ethics of Care in Native American and Indigenous Literatures Announcement published by Isabel Quintana Wulf on Tuesday, July 6, 2021 Type: Call for Papers Date: March 10, 2022 to March 13, 2022 Location: United States Subject Fields: Indigenous Studies, Literature, Race / Ethnic Studies, Native American History / Studies Please consider submitting an abstract for the following panel for the NeMLA 2022 conference Submission deadline is 30 Sept 2021 (through the NeMLA portal: http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention/callforpapers.html) For inquiries, please contact Isabel Quintana Wulf, Salisbury University, ixquintanawulf@salisbury.edu (panel organizer) Daniel Heath Justice frames his book Why Indigenous Literature Matters through four guiding questions: “How we learn to be human,” “How we behave as good relatives,” “How we become good ancestors,” and “How we learn to live together?” These questions address issues central to the ethics of care in Native American literature and Indigenous Studies, ethics that speak to the understanding of practices, experiences, traditions, and epistemologies that inform Native lives and Indigenous forms of cultural and literary expression While principles of care shape the literary and cultural texts themselves, they also affect how we engage and interpret them, and most importantly, they serve as an important guiding principle for our research practices, both settler and Indigenous We seek papers that engage with the ethics of care in Native American Literature and that address some of the following topics: the relationship between the human and non-human worlds in literature, the role of storytelling as a practice of care, the ethics of care as a literary trope, Indigenous experiences and practices that reclaim Native humanity in the face of colonialism and genocide, the ethics of care as a research paradigm, and the representation of care paradigms in literature as knowledge production Contact Info: Panel organizer: Isabel Quintana Wulf, Salisbury University ixquintanawulf@salisbury.edu Contact Email: ixquintanawulf@salisbury.edu URL: http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention/callforpapers.html Citation: Isabel Quintana Wulf CFP for MELUS 2022: The Ethics of Care in Native American and Indigenous Literatures H-Announce 07-06-2021 https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7895479/cfp-melus-2022-ethics-care-native-american-and-indigenous Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License