32211
Seminar
The Native American Literary Renaissance
Stefanie Müller
Zusätzl. Angaben / Voraussetzungen
This is a short and reading-intensive class. If you want to participate and receive credits for it. please take note of the following conditions for participation:
1. Register on Blackboard for this class as soon as possible so that you access to the material that we will discuss in session one (April 17).
2. We start our discussion of Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony on April 24, which means you need to start reading before the beginning of classes.
3. The shopping period is limited to week one. You must commit to the class by our second meeting.
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Kommentar
The phrase “the Native American Literary Renaissance” refers to a period in which Native American writers published an unprecedented number of works of literary fiction, and specifically novels, as well as non-fiction, and poetry. This period begins in 1968, with N. Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn, and continues well into the 1990s. Coined by Kenneth Lincoln in the 1980s, the phrase is a reference to the European renaissance as much as to the antebellum renaissance defined by F.O. Matthiessen – and it is not without critics.
The goal of this class is to interrogate this periodization itself, to understand its basis and what may motivate writers and scholars to cling to it. Moreover, we will read and discuss fiction and poetry by representative writers as well as discuss scholarly writing on Native American literary theory.
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11 Termine
Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung
Do, 17.04.2025 10:00 - 12:00
Do, 24.04.2025 10:00 - 12:00
Do, 15.05.2025 10:00 - 12:00
Do, 22.05.2025 10:00 - 12:00
Do, 05.06.2025 10:00 - 12:00
Do, 12.06.2025 10:00 - 12:00
Do, 19.06.2025 10:00 - 12:00
Do, 26.06.2025 10:00 - 12:00
Do, 03.07.2025 10:00 - 12:00
Do, 10.07.2025 10:00 - 12:00
Do, 17.07.2025 10:00 - 12:00