Course details

Name: ENLT - 315

Title: AMERICAN INDIAN THEMES

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2010

Credits: 3

Description:
We will study the vibrant, powerful and fascinating literature of Native America. This course will focus on contemporary fiction and poetry as representations of an indigenous struggle against displacement, environmental disaster, and the violence of "progress." Language is a weapon in this struggle; perhaps it is also the field of battle. The course will also explore representations of an indigenous oral tradition and the relationship between culture and landscape. The readings have not yet been selected but writers might include: Leslie Marmon Silko, Sherman Alexie, Joy Harjo, N. Scott Momaday, Linda Hogan and James Welch.

Schedule: Tuesday,Thursday From 2:30 pm To 3:45 pm

Graduation requirements:

  • Any Literature (1e)
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  • Other American (TE 1d)

Teaching Faculty: Lorenz Johnny (lorenzj)

Is course canceled: No