Introduction to Indigenous Literatures
Term 1
TTh, 2:00 p.m.
This course explores a selection of recent writing by self-identified Indigenous authors in Canada. To provide a context for reading this body of literature, our study draws on recent critical conversations that have framed the reception of Indigenous writing. These critical essays examine, among many issues, histories and enduring legacies of colonization, the possibility of an ethical literary scholarship, culturally diverse notions of gender and sexuality, the function of reconciliation for settler-colonial states, and the spatialization of violence.
