AIS 501

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Indigenous Critical Theory

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Credit: 4 hours.

Explores the distinctive form of inquiry which critiques settler-colonial ideas and institutions at the interdisciplinary crossroads where American Indian and Indigenous Studies engages other theories including but not limited to feminist theory, critical race theory, semiotics and phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and the postcolonial theory (to name only some of the many possibilities).

Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of the instructor.

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AIS 501 class schedule data for spring 2024
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	52586	Lecture-Discussion	A	1:00PM -2:50PM	M	382 Education Building	Rymhs, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/24-05/01/24 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Oddkin: Rethinking Relations in Indigenous Literary and Visual Texts: In “How Do We Behave as Good Relatives?” Daniel Heath Justice writes about “making kin as oddkin […] where the range of relatives to whom we are responsible extends far beyond our biological relatives and, indeed, the category of the human itself.” This practice of “making oddkin” serves as centerpiece of this seminar, which turns to literary and visual texts by Indigenous artists whose work sees the human as thoroughly imbricated in more-than-human worlds—and indeed, challenges the coherence of such categories altogether. The various kinscapes invoked by these works show humans in intimate relation not only with “nature” but with the strange, abject, and seemingly non-living. Their embrace of the unwanted and, at times, the “monstrous” is a radical recuperation of the negative that models ways of making others into familiars while ultimately shifting who or what is seen as worthy of relation. This course will have a hybrid online/in-person meeting.