Native Matters: Materiality in Indigenous Literatures Across the Pacific
CHUM 334
Fall 2020
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01
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| Crosslisting:
CEAS 334, WLIT 325 |
This seminar contemplates the function and representation of materiality in contemporary indigenous literatures. It highlights the centrality of embodied practices in indigenous cultural lives. The primary texts for the course will be literary texts (novels, short stories, essays, and poems) from different indigenous communities, including from North America, East Asia, Austrasia, and Oceania. We may also deal with non-textual materials such as artifacts, maps, clothes, video games, etc. Readings will also include theoretical or philosophical works from indigenous and non-indigenous thinkers on the subject of materials and materiality.
The course will thematize materiality in two ways: the first is to understand materiality as a way for indigenous authors to represent or construct various understandings of indigeneity, either in traditional lifeways, modern indigenous realities, or indigenous futurisms, both within and between specific indigenous communities. The second is to engage with thing theory and materiality as a method of literary analysis. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA CHUM |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (CEAS) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 75% - 89% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
TBD; The following is a tentative and incomplete list that may change: INDIGENOUS WRITERS OF TAIWAN: AN ANTHOLOGY OF STORIES, ESSAYS, AND POEMS; WALKING THE CLOUDS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF INDIGENOUS SCIENCE FICTION; ISLANDS OF PROTEST: JAPANESE LITERATURE FROM OKINAWA; Keri Hulme, STONEFISH; Robert Sullivan, STAR WAKA
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Examinations and Assignments:
Short weekly responses, paper and/or presentation, final project. |
| Instructor(s): Huang,Yu-ting Times: .M.W... 02:50PM-04:10PM; Location: FEAS SEM; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 18 | | SR major: 3 | JR major: 3 | | |
| Seats Available: 8 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 4 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 3 | FR: 2 |
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