Helsingin yliopisto - Englantilainen filologia

Mark Shackleton

PhD, Docent
University lecturer

Room: C611
Consultation hours: Tue 12–13

Telephone national: (09) 191 24351
Telephone international: +358 9 191 24351

E-mai: mark.shackleton(at)helsinki.fi

Teaching 2009–2010

Literature Tutorial, Intermediate Literature Option “Black British Writing “,  Advanced Literature Option “Trickster Literature “, Seminar “Contemporary Literature”.

Research

See Literature Research: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Diaspora Writing in English.

Recent Publications

“Native Myth Meets Western Culture: The Plays of Tomson Highway” in Migration Preservation and Change, ed. Jeffrey Kaplan, Mark Shackleton and Maarika Toivonen, Renvall Institute Publications 10, University of Helsinki, 1999: 47-58.

“Language and Resistance in the Plays of Tomson Highway” in Postcolonialism and Cultural Resistance ed. Jopi Nyman and John Stotesbury, Studia Carelica Humanistica no. 14, University of Joensuu, 1999: 215-221.

“Echoes from the Canon: Tomson Highway’s Midwinter Night’s Dream and A Portrait of A Native Artist”, in Rediscovering Canadian Difference, ed. Gudrun Björk Gudsteins. NACS Text Series 17. Reykjavik: NACS/ANEC & VFI, 2001:173-182.

Roots and Renewal: Writings by Bicentennial Fulbright Professors ed. Mark Shackleton and Maarika Toivonen, Renvall Institute Publications, 2001.

“Native North American Writing and Postcolonialism” in Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Fall 2001. Vol. 7, No. 2: 69-84.

“Tomson Highway: Colonizing Christianity versus Native Myth – from Cultural Conflict to Reconciliation” in Missions of Independence, ed. Gerhard Stiltz, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002: 41-51.

“‘Restoring the Imprisoned Nation to Itself’: Resistance, Repossession and Reconciliation in the Plays of Tomson Highway” in Reconfigurations: Canadian Literatures and Postcolonial Identities: ed. Marc Maufort & Franca Bellarisi. New Comparative Poetics No. 7. Brussels, P.I.E.-Peter Lang, 2002: 203-214.

“The Return of the Native American: The Theme of Homecoming in Contemporary Native North American Fiction”. The Atlantic Literary Review. April-June 2002. Vol 3, no. 2: 155-164.

“Can Weesageechak Keep Dancing? The Importance of Trickster Figures in the Work of Native Earth Dramatists, 1986-2000″ in Performing National Identities: International Perspectives on Contemporary Canadian Theatre. Ed. Sherrill Grace & Albert-Reiner Glaap. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2003: 278-288

“The Trickster Figure in Native North American Writing: From Traditional Storytelling to the Written Word” in Connections: Non-Native Responses to Native Canadian Literature, ed. Hartmut Lutz and Coomi S. Vevaina. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2003: 109-128.

“Haitian Transnationalism: Edwidge Danticat’s ‘Caroline’s Wedding,’ a case study of literary anthropology”. Suomen antropologi. May 2003. Volume 28, no. 2: 15-23.

“Tomson Highway in Interview with Mark Shackleton and Hartmut Lutz” in Kunapipi: Journal of Post-Colonial Writing, Vol. XXV, no 2, 2003: 74-85.

“Trickster intiaanikirjallisuudessa”
Pohjois-Amerikan intiaaniuskonnot: kirjoituksia perinteistä, muutoksesta ja jatkuvuudesta ed. Riku Hämäläinen. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2004: 308-332,

“We keep telling each other stories. It never ends’: An interview with Lee Maracle,” The Atlantic Literary Review 5.1-2
(Jan.-March & April-June 2004): 198-210.

“More Sour than Sweet? Food as a Cultural Marker in Timothy Mo’s Sour Sweet, Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and Salman Rushdie’s The Ground Beneath Her Feet “. Helsinki English Studies , vol. 3, 2004

“Monique Mojica’s Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots and Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water : Countering Misrepresentations of ‘Indianness’ in Recent Native North American Writing” in Towards a Transcultural Future: Literature and Human Rights in a ´Post´-Colonial World , ed. Peter H. Marsden and Geoffrey V. Davis, Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi, 2004: 257-266.

“Whose Myth Is It Anyway? Coyote in the Poetry of Gary Snyder and Simon J. Ortiz” in American Mythologies: Essays on Contemporary Literature ed. William Blazek and Michael K. Glenday. Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 2005: 226-242.

First and Other Nations ed. Mark Shackleton and Veera Supinen. Renvall Institute Publications 20, University of Helsinki, 2005.

“An Interview with Tomson Highway” in First and Other Nations ed. Mark Shackleton and Veera Supinen. Renvall Institute Publications 20, University of Helsinki, 2005: 92-100.

“Beyond Conflict. Memory, Trauma, and Recovery in Beatrice Mosionier’s In Search of April Raintree , Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach , and the Works of Tomson Highway” in Mémoire de guerre et construction de la paix. Mentalités et choix politiques . Belgique – Europe – Canada , ed. Serge Jaumain and Éric Remacle. Bruxelles: P.I.E.-Peter Lang, 2006: 147-155.

“The Ever-Travelling Trickster: The Trickster Figure in Native and non-Native North American Writing” in What Is Your Place?: Indigeneity and Immigration in Canada, ed. Hartmut Lutz with Thomas Rafico Ruiz. Augsburg: Wissner-Verlag, 2007: 74-82.

“‘June Walked over It like Water and Came Home’: Cross-Cultural Symbolism in Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine and Tracks ” in Transatlantic Voices: Interpretations of Native North American Literatures, ed. Elvira Pulitano. Lincoln and London : University of Nebraska Press, 2007: 188-205.

” Canada ” in The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial Studies, ed. John McLeod. London and New York : Routledge, 2007: 83-94.

“The Theme of Adoption in Native North American Literature” in Communities and Connections: Writings in North American Studies , ed. Ari Helo. Helsinki : Renvall Institute, University of Helsinki , 2007: 137-144.

Diasporic Literature and Theory – Where Now? ed. Mark Shackleton. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.

“Resisting Terminal Creeds: The Trickster and Keeping the Field of Diaspora Studies Open” in Diasporic Literature and Theory – Where Now? ed. Mark Shackleton. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008: 180-195.

“The Curious Case of  Coyote, or the Tale of the Appropriated Trickster” in Reconfigurations of Native North America: An Anthology of New Perspectives, ed. John R. Wunder and Kurt E. Kinbacher. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2009: 75-90.

Canada: Images of a Post/National Society ed. Gunilla Florby, Mark Shackleton & Katri Suhonen. Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2009.

“Tomson Highway’s Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout. Imagining the Post-National Society” in Canada: Images of a Post/National Society ed. Gunilla Florby, Mark Shackleton & Katri Suhonen. Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2009: 299-307.