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Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Oliver Scheiding
Event type:
online: Advanced seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.532
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 30
Requirements / organisational issues:
Over the last decade, settler colonial theory has challenged fundamental assumptions of American cultural historiography rooted in exceptionalist narratives and traditional scholarship on race, land, and economics. In doing so, Native American Studies has turned into a vibrant field addressing Native issues ranging from tribal and Indigenous sovereignty to questions of the archive and how to assess the Indigenous peoples’ past, present, and future. Currently, scholars not only reexamine tribal literatures, but also focus on the diverse Indigenous expressions in history, the arts, media, music, law, popular and material culture. This advanced research seminar will discuss recent approaches to Native American studies and how they invite us to rethink our understanding of “the realities that Native people inhabit” (Robert Warrior).
A reader will be posted on ILIAS at the beginning of the term.
Suggested Reading:
Melanie Benson Taylor, ed. The Cambridge History of Native American Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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