Global Community and World Literature Lecture Series 2022
 

W7-8: Global Community and World Literature (W): Native American Literature (7-8）

Jul 14, 2022, 8-11 PM (Beijing Time)

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Lecture 7: “The Plays of William S. Yellow Robe, Jr.”

Until his untimely death in July 2021, William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. was the most important Native American playwright working in the twenty-first century.  He was also, quite simply, a major American playwright.  His works demonstrated my concept of communitism.  I edited the largest anthology of his plays to date, and I am currently editing another collection.  In this lecture, I will open up this amazing playwright’s work to a new audience.

Lecture 8: “Gerald Vizenor and Native Survivance”

Gerald Vizenor is perhaps the most important and prolific Native American writer working today.  He is a scholar of Native literature, a poet, an essayist, a short story writer, and a novelist.  In his scholarship, his most important concept is “survivance.”  Like my concept of communitism, it is a compound word made up of “survival” and “resistance,” signifying Native Americans’ survival through resistance to continued colonialism against them by the settlers of the American nation.  Yet, despite the importance of the concept, it is also one of his most misunderstood idea.  In this lecture, I will clear up misconceptions about the concept and its relationship to Native community.

JACE WEAVER  is the founding Director of the The Institute of Native American Studies, Franklin Professor of Native American Studies, and Professor of Law at the University of Georgia. He earns his JD from Columbia Law School of Columbia University.