[nativestudies-l] Joy Harjo: Identity and Self Determination

[Elliott, Stephanie]

Dear Friends,

Some of you might like to join this lunchtime talk by Joy Harjo. Please RSVP to me if you plan to attend (selliott at wesleyan.edu). I want to be sure there is enough food. The event is part of a series that is normally advertised only to Wesleyan faculty and staff, but I was granted permission to invite the members of our listserv.

Topic: Identity and Self-Determination
Date: Friday, October 14
Time: 12 Noon
Location: Wesleyan University’s Olin Library, Develin Room.
A buffet lunch is provided. FREE

Directions and a campus map here:
http://www.wesleyan.edu/about/visiting.html

Joy has a new book published by Wesleyan UP, Soul Talk, Song Language.

About SOUL TALK, SONG LANGUAGE (Conversations, 2011)

"In Soul Talk Joy Harjo provides a rare and treasurable acoustic: the sound of an artist and woman thinking for herself, and for us. Never afraid of large questions of purpose and identity. But never remiss either in providing beautiful, small details of craft and commitment. This is an essential book." —Eavan Boland

Joy Harjo is a "poet-healer-philosopher-saxophonist," and one of the most powerful Native American voices of her generation. She has spent the past two decades exploring her place in poetry, music, dance/performance, and art. Soul Talk, Soul Language gathers together in one complete collection many of these explorations and conversations. Through an eclectic assortment of media, including personal essays, interviews, and newspaper columns, Harjo reflects upon the nuances and development of her art, the importance of her origins, and the arduous reconstructions of the tribal past, as well as the dramatic confrontation between Native American and Anglo civilizations. Harjo takes us on a journey into her identity as a woman and an artist, poised between poetry and music, encompassing tribal heritage and reassessments and comparisons with the American cultural patrimony. She presents herself in an exquisitely literary context that is rooted in ritual and ceremony and veers over the edge where language becomes music.


In addition, Joy will be performing at Wesleyan’s CFA, on the 14th, at 8PM.
Here are details on the performance:
Friday , October  14, 8-10PM
A member of the Mvskoke Nation born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, tenor saxophonist Joy Harjo combines storytelling, poetry and indigenous song in her musical duo with Grammy Award-winning producer/guitarist Larry Mitchell. Ms. Harjo's works blend traditional rhythms and singing with jazz, rock, blues, hip hop and her heartfelt poems, which have been recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas.
Location:  Crowell Concert Hall
Admission: $15 general public; $12 Wesleyan faculty/staff, senior citizens, non-Wesleyan students; $6 Wesleyan students
Sponsor: Center for the Arts, English Department, the Office of Diversity and Institutional Partnership's Making Excellence Inclusive Initiative, the Wesleyan University Press, and Writing at Wesleyan.
Contact:  860-685-3355,  boxoffice at wesleyan.edu


Thank you,
Stephanie

Stephanie Elliott
Publicist
Wesleyan University Press
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