ENGL 4697: Special Topics in Multicultural and Ethnic American Literature

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ENGL 4697: Special Topics in Multicultural and Ethnic American Literature Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 04/20/2020 - 11:30

This course explores contemporary Native American film by directors from an extensive range of tribal nations, geographies, and genders across time and space. We’ll look at early films of the silent era by the first Native director like James Young Deer (Delaware), including White Fawn’s Devotion (1910), consider American Indian filmmaking and presence in TV and film of the 1950s and 1960s, and then move to the mainstream splash Smoke Signals (1998) by Chris Eyre (Cheyenne/Arapahoe), which first put Native American directors on the figurative “map.” From there we’ll move to a host of independent and experimental films by Indigenous directors on both sides of the U.S./Canadian border, from films like Jeff Barnaby’s horror creations like Rhymes with Ghouls (2013) and Shelley Niro’s experimental works like The Incredible 25^th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw (2019) to speculative film such as Helen Haig-Brown’s ?E?ANX/The Cave (2009) (Tsilqot’in) and documentaries by Terry Jones (Seneca) and others, including a guest lecture with Iroquois corn soup by Jones. The semester wraps up with a student film project, utilizing skills of editing, montage, and narratology, in order to develop a full appreciation for the work that directors perform.

Provides advanced in-depth study of literatures written by ethnic American authors. Texts may be drawn from a range of African-American, Chicano/a, Latino/a, Asian American, Native American or Indigenous literature traditions. Topics vary each semester.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ETHN 4692
Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Additional Information:Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Arts Sci Gen Ed: Diversity-U.S. Perspective
Departmental Category: Multicultural and Gender Studies

Taught by Penny Kelsey.

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ENGL 4697-002: Special Topics in Multicultural and Ethnic American Literature, Adaptations, Revisions, Remixes

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 22:33:41 +0000

ENGL 4697-002: Special Topics in Multicultural and Ethnic American Literature, Adaptations, Revisions, Remixes Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 02/20/2019 - 15:33

Instructor: Prof. Maria Windell

In Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad, the system established to help slaves escape literally runs steam engines through subterranean tunnels—a fantastic riff on nineteenth-century reality. The months the protagonist Cora spends hiding in a tiny attic space to small to stand up? They undersell the seven years Harriet Jacobs spent in a similar situation. This course will explore the ways contemporary ethnic US literature has adapted, revised, and remixed history to tell stories of the US past as, also, stories of the present. Recent historical novels have taken up narratives of the earliest days of colonial slavery, the nation’s founding, American Indian slaveholding and Indian Removal, the US-Mexico borderlands, and more. In order to more fully understand the contexts upon which these novels draw—the eras in which they are set—we will also read some of the historical texts that ground these contemporary remixes. Readings may include novels by Colson Whitehead, Toni Morrison, Carmen Boullosa, Tiya Miles, Laila Lalami, Yaa Gyasi, films including Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, and the soundtrack to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton. Sixteenth- to nineteenth-century readings might include texts by Frederick Douglass, Cabeza de Vaca, Aphra Behn, John Rollin Ridge, Harriet Jacobs, and Nat Turner.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ETHN 4692
Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Additional Information:Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: Multicultural and Gender Studies

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