Listening to/for Indigenous Voices in the Atlantic World

3-4 Credits

This course explores writing by and about Native Americans on both sides of the eighteenth-century Atlantic. We will discuss topics such as settler colonialism, indigenous agency, the “Last of ...” trope, religion, and violence. Texts will include captivity narratives, early novels, memoirs, political writing, and other literary forms produced from the 1680s to the 1830s. Attribute/Distribution: CC, HE, HU, W