ENGL 460

Spring 2007 All Classes

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Lit of American Minorities

Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated as topics vary to a maximum of 6 undergraduate hours or 8 graduate hours. Prerequisite: One year of college literature, or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 460 class schedule data for spring 2007
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	46884	Lecture-Discussion	2G	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	English Building	Byrd, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/07-05/02/07 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic Section 2G: Indigenous Literatures. This course will ask students to think comparatively across indigenous writings in North America and the Pacific and to consider how indigenous traditions and knowledges inform and innovate contemporary fiction, poetry, and drama. We will begin by studying the historical roots of British and US colonialism and its effects on indigenous peoples in the US, New Zealand/Aotearoa, and the Pacific. Students will then consider how writing functions both as production of colonialist discourse and as sites for resistance within indigenous communities and politics. Some of the questions we will consider over the course of the semester include: How do indigenous writers engage histories of violence and colonialism? How do diasporic communities retain tradition and function in the lands of other indigenous peoples? What roles do literature and imagination play in indigenous resistance and survivance? Some of the authors we will read include Keri Hulme, Sherman Alexie, Haunani-Kay Trask, Joy Harjo, LeAnne Howe, Albert Wendt, James Welch, and Leslie Marmon Silko. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	46880	Lecture-Discussion	2U	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	English Building	Byrd, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/07-05/02/07 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Topic Section 2G: Indigenous Literatures. This course will ask students to think comparatively across indigenous writings in North America and the Pacific and to consider how indigenous traditions and knowledges inform and innovate contemporary fiction, poetry, and drama. We will begin by studying the historical roots of British and US colonialism and its effects on indigenous peoples in the US, New Zealand/Aotearoa, and the Pacific. Students will then consider how writing functions both as production of colonialist discourse and as sites for resistance within indigenous communities and politics. Some of the questions we will consider over the course of the semester include: How do indigenous writers engage histories of violence and colonialism? How do diasporic communities retain tradition and function in the lands of other indigenous peoples? What roles do literature and imagination play in indigenous resistance and survivance? Some of the authors we will read include Keri Hulme, Sherman Alexie, Haunani-Kay Trask, Joy Harjo, LeAnne Howe, Albert Wendt, James Welch, and Leslie Marmon Silko. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.