Lydia Heberling on How Reading Multimodal Literature Can Support Indigenous Sovereignty
University of Washington Doctoral Candidate, Lydia M. Heberling shares how reading multimodal literature -- from canoes, to fish, to comics -- can support Indigenous Sovereignty. Key texts range from "Bad Indians" by Deborah A. Miranda to "Second Serving" by L. Frank. As an episode on multimodal knowledges, key forms include wax cylinder recordings, ti'ats, and Grunion fish.
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This episode was produced by the "Literature, Language Culture" Series Editor, C. R. Grimmer and "Literature, Language Culture" Project Manager Jacob Huebsch.
Episode Contents:
0:05 Definition of Survivance
0:51 About the Episode
2:30 Part 1: How do reading practices support Indigenous sovereignty?
13:30 Part 3: How do you negotiate research ethics and reading practices when studying Indigenous cultural knowledges?
18:47 Part 4: Grunion Run(ning): Reading California in House Made of Dawn
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This video is the fifth in a public scholarship dialogue series from The University of Washington (Seattle Campus) Department of English: "Literature, Language, Culture." These video and podcast episodes share our innovative work in fostering intellectual vitality, inspiring enthusiasm for literature, honing critical insight into the ethical and creative uses of the English language, preparing future teachers, and crafting the stories that animate our world.
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About Lydia M. Heberling:
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Lydia's research focuses on aesthetic and formal innovations in 20th and 21st century California Native literatures and arts. Her dissertation asserts that Native California--including its considerable Pacific coastline which it shares with Pacific Indigenous peoples--is a site of rich and robust literary and artistic production, that California Native writers and artists are expanding understandings of relational Indigenous aesthetics, and that their works create generative trans-Indigenous connections across American Indian and Pacific Indigenous communities. Additionally, she is interested in surfing in Indigenous communities. In this work she examines how Indigenous peoples use sports and outdoor recreation activities to reclaim a visible presence in homelands and home waters, as well as how stories connect craft, communities, and places. This work grew out of her own identity as a surfer; Lydia found herself constantly wondering whose waters she was in, and this wondering has revealed rich stories and vibrant expressions of Indigenous sovereignty and relations.
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C. R. Grimmer, who also goes by Chelsea Grimmer and uses she/her and they/them pronouns interchangeably, is a teaches at The University of Washington Seattle and Bothell campuses. Their books include The Lyme Letters, forthcoming Fall 2020 from Texas Tech University Press as the Walt McDonald First Book Award Recipient, and O–(ezekiel's wife), a chapbook and audiobook collaboration from GASHER Journal and Press. C. R. completed their Ph.D. in Literature and Cultural Studies with support from The Simpson Center for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Public Humanities Fellowship. C. R. is currently the Public Scholarship Project Director in the UW Department of English, as well as Series Editor for the new "Language, Literature, Culture" Dialogue Series. C. R. also created and hosts The Poetry Vlog, has poems in journals such as Poetry Magazine, FENCE Magazine, and [PANK], and has published articles in journals such as The Comparatist.
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