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Course Schedule - Spring Semester 2007
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ENGL 472 001 (CRN: 21523)
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
Long Title: NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
Department: English
Instructor: Slappey, Lisa A.
Meeting: 9:00AM - 9:50AM MWF (8-JAN-2007 - 25-APR-2007)
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Section Max Enrollment: 100
Section Enrolled: 7
Enrollment data as of: 9-MAY-2024 11:22AM
Description: This course examines the literature of the Native American Renaissance, from N. Scott Momaday's groundbreaking Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, House Made of Dawn (1968), to the recent works of some emerging writers. Although our focus will be on the contemporary novel, we will also explore American Indian autobiography and other works of nonfiction. Our literary analysis will be supplemented by an awareness of the cultural and political movements important to American Indian peoples in the late 20th century. To what extent are Native texts both innovative forms of artistic expression within a literary tradition and instruments of social change? How might Native American works be read as "resistance" literature? In exploring such questions, the class will address the issues of sovereignty, land claims, activism, and identity. Repeatable for Credit.