Indigenous Literatures-LATAM

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This course introduces students to twentieth- and twenty-first-century Indigenous literatures from across Latin America. Over the course of the semester, we will engage with a variety of primary and secondary materials that prompt us to consider the following questions: What is ‘Indigenous literature’? What does it mean to write as an ‘Indigenous author’? How might Indigenous authors engage literature to contest stereotyped notions of indigeneity and Indigenous authorship? What ideological and political projects do these literatures put forth? How do Indigenous authors engage various literary forms and genres to develop these projects? Given the wide range of materials with which we will engage, our work will be highly comparative, with students asked to make connections and identify tensions across and between literary works and the national contexts within which they were produced.