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May 20, 2024
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2023-2024 College Catalog
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LI 240 NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE, FILM, AND CULTURE
This course explores literature, film, and cultural expressions by Native American authors, orators, and filmmakers. Students will consider Native American texts and culture in national, historical, cultural, tribal, and political contexts. This course prioritizes Native and Indigenous experiences, worldviews, and intellectual traditions. Students will be empowered to demonstrate understanding of and respect for Indigenous art, film, cultural contexts, and futures. More specifically, students will examine contemporary Native American literature, orature, film, and other visual media as both expressions of and interrogations into Indian and tribal identity and culture. Focusing mostly on contemporary Native American literature, students will examine how specific traditions and tropes are employed by Native American authors and filmmakers. Finally, students in this course investigate how Native American writers imagine themselves and how Native literature and film imagines topics such as nature, nation, gender, sexuality, and more. Students will closely examine how topics such as celebration, ceremony, and cosmology shape Native American literature by reading authors may include, but are not limited to: Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko, Tommy Orange, Sherman Alexie, and Massachusetts authors. Also see MBCC’s Land Acknowledgment statement: www.massbay.edu/land-acknowledgement. Lecture: 3 hours per week. 3 Credits Prerequisites: EN 101 (Completion of EN 102 recommended).
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