About the Course
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, and photography.
- 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.