ENGL XR022 - Writing Red: Native American Literature

Course Description

Acquaints you with a range of Native American literature. Discusses mass-mediated images of Native Americans and how "Indian-ness" is constructed, contested, and embodied in:

• poetry
• film
• autobiography
• fiction
• photography

Learner Outcomes

• Analyze a broad range of Indigenous media and academic narratives addressing human and non-human issues.
• Identify historical and contemporary human/nonhuman relations as they are expressed in the (primarily) North American literary (fiction, non-fiction, and poetry) and visual culture (film, music videos, video games, websites) canon.
• Apply literary and visual culture discourses to understand how human/nonhuman relationships are conceived, articulated, shaped, and expressed through Indigenous epistemologies.