Résumés
Abstract
This article examines critical discourses and approaches for the study of Indigenous literatures across languages. On the one hand, it investigates how the French-English divide is challenged by Indigenous authors and how it has been and can be further dealt with in Indigenous literary studies (ILS). On the other hand, it pays attention to the centrality and revitalization of Indigenous languages as they challenge colonial languages, complicate the French-English divide in ILS, and center Indigenous experiences. Engaging with the question “what approaches can scholars, teachers, and students in Indigenous literary studies use for the study of Indigenous literatures at the crossroads of languages?”, I highlight multilingual work by Indigenous authors, collect resources that directly engage Indigenous literatures from a (multi)language perspective, and gather approaches that can be helpful in developing a framework for the study of the multilingual corpus of Indigenous literatures.
Keywords:
- Indigenous literature,
- francophone Indigenous literature,
- comparative Indigenous literature,
- multilingualism,
- Indigenous literary studies
Résumé
Cet article se penche sur les discours et les approches critiques pour l'étude des littératures autochtones à travers les langues. D’une part, il étudie la manière dont les auteurs autochtones remettent en question le fossé français-anglais et la manière dont il a été et peut être traité dans les études littéraires autochtones. D’autre part, il s'intéresse à la centralité et à la revitalisation des langues autochtones dans la mesure où elles remettent en question les langues coloniales, compliquent le fossé français-anglais dans les études littéraires autochtones et sont au cœur des expériences autochtones. En répondant à la question “quelles approches les chercheurs, les enseignants et les étudiants en études littéraires autochtones peuvent-ils utiliser pour étudier les littératures autochtones à la croisée des langues ?”, je mets en lumière les œuvres multilingues d'auteurs autochtones, je rassemble des ressources qui traitent des littératures autochtones d’une point de vue de la langue et/ou du multilinguisme et je rassemble des approches qui peuvent être utiles pour développer un cadre en vue de l'étude du corpus multilingue des littératures autochtones.
Mots-clés :
- Littérature autochtone,
- littérature francophone autochtone,
- littérature autochtone comparée,
- études littéraires autochtones
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