Call for Papers: AIQ

[David Lewis]

Call for Papers

The American Indian Quarterly seeks submissions for its forthcoming Special Issue, "Indigenous Languages and Indigenous Literatures." Indigenous languages have reached a point of crisis; few of the five-hundred Indigenous languages of North America are expected to remain viable into the next century. The threat of language death has coincided with a rise in the use and presence of Indigenous languages in works of the imagination (novels, short stories, essays, poems, and autobiographical works). The urgency of language preservation and the newly emergent and as of yet relatively uninvestigated presence of Indigenous languages in works of the imagination calls for a special issue of AIQ.

Topics can include, but are not limited to critical analyses and short commentaries of the following:

The politics and protocol of Indigenous language use. Should writers of fiction be excused from responsibility for proper language use because they write creatively?

The role of language preservation in the community and in the university.

An analysis of how authors use Indigenous languages in their works of fiction.

The role of Indigenous languages in the formation and continuation of identity.

Cultural authenticity and Indigenous languages.

The use and abuse of Indigenous languages.
The rise of language preservation in Indigenous communities.

The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2004. Please send all queries and submissions (as per AIQ submission guidelines at http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~mihesuah/aiq/guidelines.htm; also include a short author bio) to the Special Issue Guest Editor:

David Treuer, Assistant Professor
Department of English, University of Minnesota
110L Lind Hall, 207 Church St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55418
e-mail: treue003 at umn.edu
Devon A. Mihesuah
Professor of Applied Indigenous Studies
Editor, American Indian Quarterly (aiquarterly at nau.edu)
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~mihesuah
Northern Arizona University
P.O. Box 15020
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5020

AIQ phone: 928-523-5159