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Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and is an enrolled
member of the Muscogee Nation. She is a graduate of the Institute
of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. She received a B.A. from the
University of New Mexico and an MFA from the University of Iowa's
Creative Writing Workshop. She has also completed the filmmaking
program at the Anthropology Film Center in Santa Fe and a songwriting
workshop at Berkelee School of Music in Boston. She is a member
of the National Council on the Arts.
Harjo has published six books of poetry, including: She Had Some
Horses, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky, and her just released A
Map to the Next World. She has received several awards for her writing,
including the 1998 Lila Wallace- Reader's Digest Award, the 1997
New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Lifetime
Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas,
the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America,
the poetry award from the Oklahoma Center for the Arts, and the
Oklahoma Book Arts Award.
She was the narrator for the Native Americans series on Turner
Network and for the Emmy award-winning show, Navajo Codetalkers
for National Geographic. She performs nationally and internationally
solo and with her band, Joy Harjo and Poetic Justice, for which
she plays saxophone.
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Beyond the Postcolonial World,
or
the Process of Becoming a Writer
Wednesday-Sunday October
25-29, 2000
University of Oklahoma campus
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We are in the process of creating a world as we speak, even
as we think. This seminar is about the process of creating as
a native artist in a postcolonial world. Consider that how we
define ourselves or let others define us will determine whether
the world is flat or round or of some other shape that is yet
to be defined.
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The Class Reading List: (These books and articles supplied
by OSLEP)
The Song of Lawino, Okot p'Bitek, Heinemann
(TX), reprint Dec. 1984.
From Sand Creek, Simon J. Ortiz, University
of Arizona Press, Feb. 2000.
A Map to the Next World, Poems and Tales, Joy
Harjo, W.W. Norton & Company.
Red on Red, Craig Womack, University of Minnesota
Press.
Reinventing the Enemy's Language, Contemporary Native
Women's Writing of North America, Joy Harjo, ed.,
W.W. Norton, 1997
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