Hemisp Indigeneities: Abiayala

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course considers literature, film, essay, music, and visual culture from across Abiayala—what we might refer to as ‘the Americas’—produced by Indigenous authors, artists, practitioners, and intellectuals. Taking a comparative approach that rejects settler divides between ‘Latin America,’ the United States, and Canada, students will engage with key debates from Indigenous Studies and Native American Studies while also considering how various cultural objects articulate contemporary and transhistorical experiences of coloniality, dispossession, racism and racialization, political violence, environmental degradation, and erasure. Central to our in-class discussions will be the tracing of nodes of divergence and continuity, as well as the examination of how specific creative genres and formal techniques are wielded to simultaneously reject settler impositions and advance alternative political futures. Readings and viewings will be in Spanish and English.