ENG 541 Native American Literature

Critical reading and discussion of a variety of Native American texts from oral and written traditions. Readings will be situated in a variety of cultural contexts, ranging from Columbian contact to contemporary popular culture. Applicable critical lenses may be employed in student reading and research, including postcolonial, poststructural and emerging Native American critical theory. Writers studied will vary and may include transcriptions of oral texts as well as twentieth-century writers like Zitkala-Sa,McNickle, Momaday, Silko, Young Bear, Erdrich, Ortiz, Harjo, and Alexie.

Credits

3