Graduate course in Native American literature and criticism

Check out the latest cross-listing in AMS graduate courses, from Prof. Stephanie Fitzgerald:

ENGL 790/AMS 808: Studies in: Native American Renaissance 1968-Present.
In 1969, American Indian writing burst into the American literary consciousness with the awarding of the Pulitzer Prize to N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) for his novel House Made of Dawn. Taking its title from a Navajo chantway and fusing Native oral traditions with modernist techniques, it forever changed the course of American Indian writing. Since the landmark publication of Momaday’s novel, the field of American Indian literatures has grown exponentially. In essence, this course provides an overview of the construction of the field itself. We will focus on contemporary Native fiction and poetry from the “Native American Renaissance,” a movement than runs roughly from 1968 to 1983, into the 21st century along with an examination of current critical approaches and key debates in the field. Along with Momaday, primary texts may include those by Leslie Marmon Silko, Joy Harjo, Louise Erdrich, James Welch, and Craig Womack, among others. Secondary texts will cover key debates over Native nationalism, cosmopolitanism and ethnocriticism from critics such as Craig Womack, Robert Allen Warrior, Jace Weaver, Gerald Vizenor and Paula Gunn Allen.