FF:AJL25047 Indigenous Literature

AJL25047 Indigenous Literature

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2022

Extent and Intensity

0/2. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Taught in person.

Teacher(s)

Guaranteed by

Mgr. Martina Horáková, Ph.D.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts

Timetable

Fri 12:00–13:40 G31

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 1/20, only registered: 0/20

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

This course aims to examine in more detail contemporary Indigenous literature in North America. Students will be asked to study texts of various genre, analyze themes and narrative strategies and contemplate the ways in which Indigenous literature today may articulate a distinctive artform. The textual analysis will be put into a larger context of the historical development of Indigenous literature in the USA and Canada since its renaissance in the 1960s and also into the perspective of traditions of oral cultures.

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course students should have a better appreciation of the minority literary discourse and the development of Indigenous artistic forms in North America in the last four decades.

Syllabus

Syllabus:
Week 1: Introduction to North American Indigenous literatures
Week 2: Indigenous Gender Roles: Louise Erdrich, The Last Miracle on the Little No Horse (2001)
Week 3: Indigenous Humor: Sherman Alexie, Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993)
Week 4: Indigenous Postmodernism: Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water (1993)
Week 5: Indigenous Gothic: Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach (2000)
Week 6: Indigenous Non-Fiction: Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian (2012)
Week 7: reading week
Week 8: Indigenous Drama: Drew Hayden Taylor, The Berlin Blues (2007)
Week 9: Indigenous Bildungsroman: Jeannette Armstrong, Slash (1985)
Week 10: Indigenous Short Stories: Joseph Boyden, Born with a Tooth (2001)
Week 11: Indigenous Life Writing: Beth Brant, “Writing Life and Baking Bread” and N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969)
Week 12: Indigenous critical theory: Lee Maracle, Robert Warrior, Craig Womack

Literature

required literature

Boyden, Joselg, Born with a Tooth (2001)
Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993)
KING, Thomas. The inconvenient Indian : a curious account of native people in North America. Anchor Canada edition. [Toronto]: Anchor Canada, 2013, xvi, 314. ISBN 9780385664226. info
TAYLOR, Drew Hayden. The Berlin blues. 1st print. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2007, 96 s. ISBN 9780889225817. info
HOGAN, Linda. The woman who watches over the world : a native memoir. 1st publ. as a Norton pbk. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2002, 207 s. ISBN 0393323056. info
ERDRICH, Louise. The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse. 1st ed. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2001, 361 s. ISBN 0060187271. info
ROBINSON, Eden. Monkey beach. 1st pub. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000, 377 s. ISBN 0618073272. info
KING, Thomas. Green grass, running water. 1st HarperPerennial ed. Toronto: Harper & Collins, 1994, 431 s. ISBN 0-00-647506-X. info
BRANT, Beth. Writing as witness :essay and talk. Canada: Women's Press, 1994, 127 s. ISBN 0-88961-200-5. info
ARMSTRONG, Jeannette C. Slash. Rev. ed. Penticton: Theytus Books, 1990, 251 s. ISBN 0919441297. info

Teaching methods

mini-lectures, group and class discussions, oral presentations

Assessment methods

active participation in discussions 15%
oral presentation 15%
response papers during the semester 30%
final research paper 50%

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