Romero, Channette
TR 12:45 PM
Park Hall 139
Native American Novel After 1900
This course will provide an introduction to the Native American novel. We will examine the ways in which contemporary Indigenous North American writers use the oral and storytelling traditions, religious beliefs, and histories of their tribes to experiment with the traditional novel form. The novels we will be reading experiment with narrative voice, form, characterization, temporality, and the traditional function of the novel in an attempt to represent Native viewpoints, communities, and histories. We will explore how these writers appropriate the identity and community-building function of the novel to create new narratives to help Native peoples negotiate contemporary life. Though novels will comprise our primary texts, we will also be reading novel theory in this class.
REQUIRED NOVELS
Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (ISBN: 9780143104919)
Louise Erdrich, The Round House (ISBN: 0062065254)
Stephen Graham Jones, Ledfeather (ISBN: 9781573661461)
LeAnne Howe, Miko Kings (ISBN: 9781879960787)
Drew Hayden Taylor, The Night Wanderer (ISBN: 9781554510993)
Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves (ISBN: 978-1770864863)
Philip Red Eagle’s Red Earth (ISBN: 9781844712687)