Indigenous America in the 21st Century: A Cultural Examination

Dozent/in:

Johanna Feier

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

Mo, 18:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including an obligatory or optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literary studies or cultural studies:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
• LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
• MA English and American Studies
• MA WiPäd
• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
• Studium Generale (not BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik!)

>> OPEN for Consolidation Module literary studies and cultural studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• active participation (individual tasks and group work)
• presentation in English
• only Consolidation module: oral exam (see website for more information: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/amerikanistik/studium/consolidation-module-ma/ )

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course (de)enrollment: March 1st – May 1st, 2021
• ECTS (de)registration: June 1st – July 1st, 2021

Students enrolled for this class will be registered in the VC class by the instructor in the first week of the semester!

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/

Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung der Lehrveranstaltung fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin.

Inhalt:

In this course, we will examine how indigenous authors and filmmakers engage with contemporary issues of Native America. How do their stories negotiate the individual and communal situations of indigenous peoples on a continent characterized by over four hundred years of cultural, socio-economic, and political oppression? Recent events have marked historic milestones in recognizing Native Americans on a national stage. The nomination of Deb Haaland, an enrolled member of the Laguna Pueblo, to become Secretary of the Interior would make her – if confirmed – the first ever Native American cabinet secretary and head of the fraught Bureau of Indian Affairs. Joy Harjo, a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, became the first indigenous American writer to be named the United States Poet Laureate in 2019. While these long overdue steps signify crucial strides in formally acknowledging the cultural, public contributions of Native Americans, they also shed light on the sweeping marginalization that indigenes in the U.S. continue to experience.

Through a study of selected works by Harjo, Natalie Diaz, Luci Tapahonso, Layli Long Soldier, and Stephen Graham Jones, among others, and films such as Sterlin Harjo’s Four Sheets to the Wind and Andrew Okpeaha MacLean’s Sikumi, we will analyze an array of storytellers’ versions of indigenous America in the 21st century.

Empfohlene Literatur:

A digital reader will be made available at the beginning of the course.