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FREN 350 Littérature autochtones comparées en Amérique du Nord Units: 3.00
An examination of comparative approaches to Indigenous literatures across North America. Questions of translation, tribal specificity, literary nationalism, inter- and trans-Indigenous orientations are examined in relation to a diversity of works by Indigenous scholars, writers, filmmakers, and other artists and thinkers.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify and describe critical and creative works by Indigenous scholars, writers, filmmakers, and other thinkers and creators across North America.
- Explain key critical approaches developed in Indigenous literary studies, with a focus on comparative approaches to literatures.
- Apply the close reading methodologies and other techniques of comparative literary analysis presented in this course.
- Interpret and analyze critical and creative Indigenous works in relation to one another and to the historical, political, and cultural contexts in which they are created and circulated.
- As part of a final essay, communicate effectively the constitutive elements of a comparative critical analysis on at least two works or elements of the material studied.