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Lecture
WiSe 17/18: Native American Literature
Ulla Haselstein
Comments
The lecture will present a historical survey of Native American literature as a medium of collective identity, political protest, individual self-expression and cultural nationalism. Every acount of Native American Literature must take historical events and political developments into account: settler colonialism, savagism, war, missionary work, enforced assimilation, the American Indian Movement, and indigeneity are some key terms which are reflected in literary texts. We will study a broad variety of genres (stories, memories, autobiographies, novels, reports, poems etc.) and discuss concepts such as orality vs writing; myth vs literature; collective vs individual authorship together with concepts that stress interstitiality, transculturality and cultural hybridity. close
15 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2017-10-17 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2017-10-24 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2017-11-07 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2017-11-14 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2017-11-21 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2017-11-28 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2017-12-05 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2017-12-12 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2017-12-19 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2018-01-09 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2018-01-16 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2018-01-23 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2018-01-30 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2018-02-06 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2018-02-13 10:00 - 12:00