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ENGL 5750

Special Topics in First Nations Literature

0.5 credits · Graduate

Winter 2013

Topics

  • Introduction and representations of Indigenous People in mainstream
  • speculative fiction
  • class)
  • Sierra Adare, “Introduction” and “Future ‘Indians,’ Past Stereotypes.” (photocopy)
  • Christine Morris, "Indians and Other Aliens
  • A Native American View of Science
  • Fiction." (photocopy)
  • First Contact
  • Rest of the World as Well” (photocopy)
  • Lisa Jackson, “The Visit” (view online)
  • Jonas George, “The Star-Man” (photocopy)
  • Jessica Langer, “Introduction: Elephant-Shaped Holes” and “Conclusion: Filling Holes
  • Breaking Boundaries.” (photocopy)
  • Dillon “Imagining Indigenous Futurisms”
  • Alien Encounters and Colonization
  • Celu Amberstone, “Refugees” (photocopy)
  • Gerry William, “from The Black Ship” (Dillon 77-84)
  • Simon Ortiz, “Men on the Moon” (Dillon 85-95)
  • Grace L. Dillon, “Miindiwag and Indigenous Diaspora: Eden Robinson’s and Celu
  • Amberstone’s Forays into ‘Postcolonial’ Science Fiction and Fantasy.”
  • (photocopy
  • Dillon “Contact”
  • Nalo Hopkinson, “Introduction.” (photocopy)
  • Time Travel
  • Drew Hayden Taylor, Toronto at Dreamer’s Rock

Readings

  • Required: Alexie, Sherman. Flight. New York: Black Cat, 2007.
  • Required: Dillon, Grace L., ed. Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 2012.
  • Required: Justice, Daniel Heath. Kynship: The Way of Thorn and Thunder Book 1. Cape Crocker Reserve: Kegedonce, 2005
  • Required: Silko, Leslie Marmon. Almanac of the Dead. New York: Penguin, 1992.
  • Required: Taylor, Drew Hayden. Toronto at Dreamer’s Rock & Education is Our Right: Two One-Act Plays. Calgary: Fifth House, 1990.
  • Required: -----. The Night Wanderer: A Native Gothic Novel. Toronto: Annick, 2007.
  • Required: Visual Media Texts:
  • Required: Alexie, Sherman. “A Drug Called Tradition” and “Imagining the Reservation.” The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. New York: Grove, 2005. 12-23 and 149-153.
  • Required: Amberstone, Cely. “Refugees.” So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan. Vancouver: Arsenal, 2004. 161
  • Required: 182. (half the story is in Walking the Clouds)
  • Required: George, Jonas. “The Star-Man.” The Star-Man and Other Tales. Ed. Basil H. Johnston. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1997. 59-63.
  • Required: King, Thomas. “How Corporal Colin Sterling Saved Blossom, Alberta, and Most of the Rest of the World as Well.” One Good Story, That One.” Toronto: HarperCollins, 1993. 47-63.
  • Required: Sanders, William. “Going After Old Man Alabama.” In Tales from the Great Turtle: Fantasy in the Native American Tradition. Ed. Piers Anthony & Richard Gilliam. New York: Tor. 189-208.
  • Required: -----. “The Undiscovered.” The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1998. 224-244. [1997]
  • Required: Adare, Sierra. “Introduction” and “Future ‘Indians,’ Past Stereotypes.” “Indian” Stereotypes in TV Science Fiction: First Nations’ Voices Speak Out. Austin: U of Texas P, 2005. 1-9 and 29-57.
  • Required: Allen, Paula Gunn. “The Ceremonial Motion of Indian Time: Long Ago, So Far.” The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions. 2nd Edition. Boston: Beacon Press: 1992. 147-154.
  • Required: Dillon, Grace L., “Miindiwag and Indigenous Diaspora: Eden Robinson’s and Celu Amberstone’s Forays into ‘Postcolonial’ Science Fiction and Fantasy.” Extrapolation
  • Required: 48.2 (2007): 219-243.
  • Required: Hoagland, Erica and Reema Sarwal. “Introduction: Imperialism, the Third World and Postcolonial Science Fiction.” Science Fiction, Imperialism and the Third World: Essays on Postocolonial Literature and Film. Ed. Erica Hoagland and Reema Sarwal. Jefferson: McFarland, 2010. 5-19
  • Required: Hopkinson, Nalo. “Introduction.” So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004. 7-9.
  • Required: Langer, Jessica. “Introduction: Elephant-Shaped Holes” and “Conclusion: Filling Holes, Breaking Boundaries.” Postcolonialism and Science Fiction. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 1-10 and 153-159
  • Required: Morris, Christine. "Indians and Other Aliens; A Native American View of Science Fiction." Extrapolation 20.4 (1979): 301-307.
  • Required: Todd, Loretta. “Narratives in Cyberspace.” Transference, Tradition, Technology: Native New Media Exploring Visual and Digital Culture. Ed. Dana Claxton, Steven Loft, and Melanie Townsend. Banff: Walter Phillips Gallery, 2005. 152-163
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