This course will serve as an introductory survey to Indigenous literature on Turtle Island (what is now Canada, the US and Mexico). The work we study will span the period often called the Native Literary Renaissance, and the years immediately preceding this, from 1954 onwards. This was a time when work written by Indigenous writers reaches a main-stream non-Indigenous, non-academic audience.
Daniel Heath Justice. Why Indigenous Literatures Matter. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2018. PS153.I52J878 2018
Neal McLeod. Indigenous Poetics in Canada. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013. PS8147.I6I53 2014
Mareike Neuhaus. The Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literatures. U of R Press, 2015. 20.500.12592/gbzx39
Mareike Neuhaus. That’s Raven Talk : Holophrastic Readings of Contemporary Indigenous Literatures. University of Regina Press, 2011. 20.500.12592/jtkg6x
Lee Maracle. My Conversations With Canadians. Book*hug Press, 2017. 20.500.12592/t23xzt