INDIGST 3D03 Contemporary Native Literature in Canada
Sgę́:nǫˀ, shé:kon, boozhoo, yá'át'ééh! This course engages Indigenous-authored stories and is organized around several prominent genres of Indigenous literary artistic production including Indigenous oral traditions, short stories, poetry, film & media, nonfiction, the novel, and literary theory. You will become acquainted with Indigenous aesthetics and literary conventions and to a lesser extent, we may highlight mainstream literary elements such as plot, character, dialogue, conflict, setting, and rhetorical and linguistic devices. In addition to aesthetic considerations, we will pay attention to the social, cultural, historical, and political contexts in which these works were produced to interrogate the relationship between the representation to (past, contemporary, and future) Indigenous realities / themes relevant to Indigenous communities (urban, rez, rural). Some issues and themes include Indigenous being & presence, kinship, gender, intergenerational trauma, colonialism, decolonization, Indigenous futurity, and Indigenous literary nationalisms. “Indigenous” encompasses First Nation, Métis, and Inuit, and we will barely scratch the surface of the wealth of Indigenous literatures north of the Medicine Line. This course is reading-intensive, and you should expect to devote an extra 2-3 hours per week to prepare for each class meeting.
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INDIGST 3D03 Contemporary Native Literature in Canada
Sgę́:nǫˀ, shé:kon, boozhoo, yá'át'ééh! This course engages Indigenous-authored stories and is organized around several prominent genres of Indigenous literary artistic production including Indigenous oral traditions, short stories, poetry, film & media, nonfiction, the novel, and literary theory. You will become acquainted with Indigenous aesthetics and literary conventions and to a lesser extent, we may highlight mainstream literary elements such as plot, character, dialogue, conflict, setting, and rhetorical and linguistic devices. In addition to aesthetic considerations, we will pay attention to the social, cultural, historical, and political contexts in which these works were produced to interrogate the relationship between the representation to (past, contemporary, and future) Indigenous realities / themes relevant to Indigenous communities (urban, rez, rural). Some issues and themes include Indigenous being & presence, kinship, gender, intergenerational trauma, colonialism, decolonization, Indigenous futurity, and Indigenous literary nationalisms. “Indigenous” encompasses First Nation, Métis, and Inuit, and we will barely scratch the surface of the wealth of Indigenous literatures north of the Medicine Line. This course is reading-intensive, and you should expect to devote an extra 2-3 hours per week to prepare for each class meeting.