Indigepop: A Companion

Indigepop: An Edited Collection, Edited by Svetlana Seibel and Kati Dlaske

Details: Paperback, 302 pages, published by the Peter Lang Group

From the publisher:   Contemporary Indigenous popular culture is a dynamic and expansive cultural field that has been gaining increasing momentum since the turn of the twenty-first century. This edited collection brings together contributions by scholars, artists and practitioners who work with and in the field of Indigenous popular culture in various capacities, from different standpoints and in a range of geopolitical contexts. This approach aims at promoting a dialogue between diverse sites of knowledge production of and on the Indigenous popular at the same time as it reflects the multivocal, multimedial and multisited landscape of contemporary Indigenous popular culture. The contributions in the volume engage both the poetics and the politics of IndigePop, showcasing the creative and celebratory energies of Indigenous popular culture and Indigenerdity as well as their societal significance vis-à-vis Indigenous resistance, resurgence and political struggles (peterlang.com)

Contents:

• Part I Conceptualizing IndigePop
• Reflections on ‘Personal Totems’ (Sonny Assu)
• Personal Totems (Sonny Assu)
• Critical Nerd Theory: A Brief Introduction (Lee Francis 4)
• Part II Autobiographical Practice as Critical Lens in IndigePop
• Pop Life: How Pop Culture Saved My Indigenous Bacon All These Blessed Years (Richard Van Camp)
• Succeeding Skywalker (Red Haircrow)
• Part III Visual and Graphic Art Forms in IndigePop
• The Force Is With Our People: Contemporary Indigenous Artists Reimagine the Star Wars Universe (Anthony J. Thibodeau, Museum of Northern Arizona Director of Research & Collections)
• Graphic Representations of Residential Schools: Using Popular Narrative to Teach Unpopular History (James J. Donahue)
• Reframing, Rewriting, Redrawing the Past: The Creation of Decolonizing Narratives in Sámi History Cartooning (Juliane Egerer)
• ‘We Are Mauna Kea’ (Weshoyot Alvitre)
• Part IV Popular Genres and Media in IndigePop
• ‘A’ole TMT: The Use of Songs in the We Are Mauna Kea Movement (Colby Y. Miyose)
• ‘It’s Not Me’: Displacing Alienness in Stephen Graham Jones’s All the Beautiful Sinners and Not for Nothing (Cécile Heim)
• Mediating Indigenous Voices: Sámi Lifestyle Blogs and the Politics of Popular Culture (Kati Dlaske)
• Part V Creatorship, Fandom and Critical Practice in IndigePop
• From Speculative Fiction to Indigenous Futurism: The Decolonizing Fan Criticism of Métis in Space (Monica Flegel and Judith Leggatt)
• Voices of the Indigenous Comic Con 2: Indigenous Popular Artists in Conversation with Kati Dlaske and Svetlana Seibel
• Bibliography
• Notes on Contributors
• Index