CAST 238 - Self and Sovereignty in Global Indigenous Literatures

FC ARHU CD WINT

4 credits
This class offers a comparative study of Anglophone indigenous literatures of North America, Central America, New Zealand, and Australia. This course examines indigenous authors assertions of sovereignty and self-representation in different colonial contexts. Drawing on critical work in Native American and Indigenous Studies, this course explores how global indigenous writers have addressed the legacies of colonialism as well as different political and legal construction of indigeneity. In the process, the course examines notions of race and ethnicity in different national contexts; past and present debates about global indigenous sovereignty; and contemporary debates about the politics of indigenous (self-)representation.