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Cursus: LET-ETCAMB214
LET-ETCAMB214
Indigenous Studies in the United States and Canada
Cursus informatieRooster
CursusLET-ETCAMB214
Studiepunten (ECTS)5
Categorie-
VoertaalEngels
Aangeboden doorRadboud Universiteit; Faculteit der Letteren; Engelse taal en cultuur;
Docenten
Docent
dr. L.M. De Vos
Overige cursussen docent
Examinator
dr. M.H. Roza
Overige cursussen docent
Docent
dr. M.H. Roza
Overige cursussen docent
Coördinator
dr. M.H. Roza
Overige cursussen docent
Contactpersoon van de cursus
dr. M.H. Roza
Overige cursussen docent
Collegejaar2022
Periode
PER 1-PER 2  (05-09-2022 t/m 29-01-2023)
Aanvangsblok
PER 1
Onderwijsvorm
voltijd
OpmerkingAanschuifonderwijs
Inschrijven via OSIRISJa
Inschrijven voor bijvakkersJa
VoorinschrijvingNee
WachtlijstNee
Plaatsingsprocedure-
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This course offers an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Native American and First Nations Studies, with an emphasis on literature, and some visual art and film as important inroads into various crucial themes. You will explore the history of North American Indians in the US and Canada from the earliest moments of contact to the present. Against this background of settler colonialism, you will study native peoples’s efforts to preserve and reclaim a lost and threatened cultural and political standing. Throughout the course, we will engage in various case studies to explore themes like contact, settler colonialism, historiography, identity, sovereignty, trauma, survival and revival. We will also analyze and discuss a variety of modes of literary and visual representations of "Indians" in non-native North American culture, and explore the ways (stereotypical and otherwise) in which "the Indian" has functioned in non-native culture and consciousness. Authors to be discussed include: Pauline Johnson, Zitkala-Sa, Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko, Thomson Highway, Sherman Alexie, Joy Harjo, Thomas King, Layla Long Soldier, and Tommy Orange.

 

Course Goals

At the end of the course, the student

  • Has gained an understanding of the history of the colonization of indigenous peoples in North America and its historiography.
  • Has gained introductory insight into settler colonialism as a critical paradigm from which to address colonial history.
  • Has learned to critically assess the ways in which historical and political experiences have shaped and determined the cultural expressions of indigenous peoples in North America, and how indigenous peoples have resisted these pressures; 
  • is able to critically analyze and discuss different modes of literary and artistic representations of indigenous peoples by both indigenous and non-indigenous people, and their cultural and political implications.
Niveau

Voorkennis

Toetsinformatie

Bijzonderheden

Verplicht materiaal
Boek
Titel:There There
Auteur:Tommy Orange
Uitgever:Penguin Vintage 2018
Boek
Titel:Love Medicine: Newly Revised Edition
Auteur:Louise Erdrich
Uitgever:Harper Perennial
Artikelen
Various articles and book chapters: to be announced
Aanbevolen materiaal
Wordt nader bekendgemaakt
.
Titel:To be announced
Werkvormen
Werkcollege
AanwezigheidsplichtJa

Werkgroep
AanwezigheidsplichtJa

Toetsen
Participation
Weging40
ToetsvormDeelname
GelegenhedenBlok PER 2, Blok PER 2

Minimum cijfer
5,5

Midterm Take Home
Weging20
ToetsvormWerkstuk
GelegenhedenBlok PER 1, Blok PER 2

Minimum cijfer
5,5

Final exam Take Home
Weging40
ToetsvormWerkstuk
GelegenhedenBlok PER 2, Blok PER 3

Minimum cijfer
5,5

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