ENGL 12038 - Health, Land, Sovereignty

Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0

HEALTH, LAND, AND SOVEREIGNTY This course offers an introduction to literary and cultural studies through examining the stories people tell about how they inhabit land and space. We will study the links between health, identity, and Native/Indigenous narratives of sovereignty. This course will take up Native/Indigenous histories, narratives, and movements to consider the connections between nation, citizenship, disability, and ability. The main goal of this course is to interrogate social and cultural assumptions about what is now the United States through careful analysis of different peoples, bodies, minds, and experiences. Readings will include works by William Apess (Pequot), Zitkala-Sa (Dakota), and Joy Harjo (Muscogee Nation) in addition to selections from public discourse and digital media. [AH]