Howe, LeAnne
MW 10:10 AM
Park Hall 0144
American Indian/Indigenous authors create texts that cross boundaries, bend narrative fiction into poetry, turn traditional stories into science fiction, historical into horror, and test the limits of genre. We will read American Indian literatures as “transgenres,” that is, texts that experiment with other media. We will explore the meaning of “Tribalography” and its roots in tribal lifeways in an effort to intervene in the dominant colonial imaginings about who Native Americans are, and what a Native “story” is. The course is reading and writing intensive and highly interactive -- meaning it is driven by your inquiry. I reserve the right to change to the syllabus.