Spring 2018  |  ENGL 5300 Section 001: Readings in American Minority Literature -- The Treaty Moment: Promises in Native Law and Lit (67117)

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Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
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Topics Course
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Regular Academic Session
 
01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018
Tue 05:30PM - 08:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 226
Enrollment Status:
Open (9 of 15 seats filled)
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Course Catalog Description:
Contextual readings of 19th-/20th-century American minority writers. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
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http://classinfo.umn.edu/?cpexa+ENGL5300+Spring2018
Class Description:
This course will examine actual treaties as well as literary depictions of treaties and political declarations, from Westphalia to the treaty-making between the United States and indigenous nations (1784-1871) to the 1993 Oslo Accords and 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. We will address differences between nation-state and indigenous-national theories of political promise-making, and the affinities between settler colonialism, promise-breaking, and ongoing dispossession and extraction of indigenous lands by settler states. Theoretical texts will include works by Chief Little Crow, Friedrich Nietzsche, Judith Butler, Roxane Dunbar-Ortiz, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Joanne Barker, Glen Coulthard, and Steven Salaita, among others.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67117/1183
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 April 2017

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