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  Native American Voices: Stories of Survival and Resistance

Dozent/in
Dr. phil. Johanna Feier

Angaben
Hauptseminar
Rein Online
2 SWS
Kultur und Bildung
Zeit: Mo 18:00 - 20:00, Online-Meeting

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
Given the challenges still posed by COVID-19, this course will be an online course. Registered participants will be signed up by the instructor for a moodle course (Virtual Campus) and a virtual classroom on MS Teams.

1. Module Allocation:
  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS) / Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
  • LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS) / Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
  • MA English and American Studies: Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS), Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS) / Master Module English and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS), Profile Module English and American Culture I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
  • Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies: Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS) / Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)
  • Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

Attention: The course is NOT open for the Consolidation module!

2. FlexNow-Registration: (all except guest auditors)
  • Course (de)registration: September 7 – November 7, 2020
  • ECTS (de)registration: January 1 – February 1, 2021

Guest auditors: please contact nicole.konopka(at)uni-bamberg.de via e-mail.

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

Inhalt
In 2019, Joy Harjo became the first indigenous American writer to be named the United States Poet Laureate. Harjo, who is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, currently serves as the official poet of the U.S., which marks a crucial step in formally recognizing the literary and cultural contributions of Native Americans. For over four hundred years, the fraught history of political, socio-economic, and cultural oppression has predominantly led to reductionist appropriations of indigenous stories by non-Natives in mainstream American culture. Since the so-called Native American Renaissance in the late 1960s, though, indigenous voices have become ever more prominent in America’s literary canon, to which Harjo’s Poet Laureate status is a testament.

In this seminar, we will discuss the longstanding tradition of indigenous storytelling and examine the stories of survival as well as resistance that Native American authors have chosen to tell about themselves and their communities. We will trace the complicated origins of indigenous literature and analyze how it questions, challenges, subverts, or conforms to the literary norms of ethnocentric white America. Through a study of selected works by major Native American writers, we will engage with the complex tapestry that indigenous storytellers have created in the 20th and 21st century. Readings in this course will include Louise Erdrich’s novel Love Medicine, Joy Harjo’s collection Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems, poetry by Simon Ortiz and Luci Tapahonso, and prose by Leslie Marmon Silko, James Welch, and Linda Hogan.

Students are kindly asked to purchase Erdrich’s novel Love Medicine (the newly revised edition or an earlier edition) and Harjo’s collection Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems (2017). A digital reader with all other texts (as PDFs) will be made available at the beginning of the course.

Englischsprachige Informationen:
Credits: 8

Zusätzliche Informationen
Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 25

Institution: Professur für Amerikanistik

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