Craft Talk with Joshua Whitehead
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60-minute talk followed by Q&A.
From his debut book of poetry full-metal indigiqueer through to his novel in progress, The Stonewailers, Joshua Whitehead will explore the role of Anishinaabeg and nêhiyawak epistemologies, or worldviews, as foundational “motors” for both creative insight and structural form within his written works. Further, he will explore, in detail, the role intertextuality plays in complicating, speaking across time(s), and expanding literary tools such as worldbuilding, allusion, and dialogue in his writing. Questions Whitehead is interested in asking are: what role does ekphrasis have in writing? What are the ethics of the prefix “auto-” in our literary works (autofiction, autopoetics, autobiography)? How do we read, and write, Indigenous (and/or literatures written from outside of our communities) as entertainment rather than education? And how do we hold all of these literary influences simultaneously while not getting lost in the labyrinth of a new manuscript?
