General information

Subtitle	Prof. Sarkowsky gemeinsam mit PD Dr. Müller
Course number	022 100 0120
Semester	SS 2022
Current number of participants	15
maximum number of participants	20
Home institute	Amerikanistik
Courses type	Seminar in category Teaching
Next date	Tue , 05.07.2022 15:45 - 17:15, Room: (D, 2127)
Online/Digitale Veranstaltung	Veranstaltung wird in Präsenz abgehalten.
Hauptunterrichtssprache	englisch
Literaturhinweise	Please get a print copy of Marie Clements’ play Burning Vision (2003) and Linda Hogan's novel Solar Storms (1997). For introductory reading, we recommend Sean Teuton's Native American Literature: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2018)
ECTS points	8

Lecturers

Course location / Course dates

(D, 2127)

Tuesday: 15:45 - 17:15, weekly (13x)

Fields of study

Philologisch-Historische Fakultät

Module assignments

Comment/Description

Indigenous activism as well as Indigenous literature highlight important
connections between environmental issues, questions of sovereignty, and
colonial histories in North America. “Pollution is not a manifestation
or side effect of colonialism,” writes geographer Max Liboiron (Red
River Metis/Michif), “but is rather an enactment of ongoing colonial
relations to Land” (2021, 6). Thus understood, extraction and pollution
need to be seen in connection to other process of colonial domination
and displacement in North America; such connections touch upon different
conceptions of citizenship, belonging, and kinship and provide a
framework for thinking about the ethical, political, cultural, and
economic conflicts where they play out.

In this class, we will look at how Indigenous writers address these
complex intertwinements. We will discuss literary examples from the
1990s to the present, ranging from poetry, for instances by Natalie Diaz
(Akimel O'odham), Craig Santos Perez (Chamoru), or Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner
(Marshall Islander), and short prose, e.g., by Richard Van Camp (Dog
Rib) or Gerald Vizenor (Anishinaabe). In addition, we will look at Marie
Clements’ (Metis) play Burning Vision (2003) and the novel Solar Storms
(1997) by Linda Hogan (Chickasaw).

Shorter texts will be provided on Digicampus. Please get a print copy of
Clements’ play and Hogan’s novel.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Beschränkte Teilnehmendenanzahl: HS Environmental Displacement, Citizenship and Conflict in Indigenous Literatures".

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The enrolment is possible from 14.03.2022, 08:00 to 18.04.2022, 18:00.
A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
The seats in these courses will be assigned at 20.04.2022, 18:00. Addional seats may be added to a wait list.