NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURE

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1900-Present Course. American Literature Course, Ethnic/Postcolonial Course and 20th-Century Contemporary Literature Course. This course will focus on Native North American Indian writings in English from the early 20th-century through the present. Some themes to be explored are connections between orality and literacy, Indian/white relations, the environment, spirituality. We will also consider how various writers respond to social and political concerns such as gender, race, poverty, and self-determination.