Literature 2015 - American Indian Fictions

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Bard College

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American Studies, Human Rights, SRE By the time D'Arcy McNickle, the first major American Indian novelist, began publishing his work, Indians had been stock literary figures for more than 300 years. In works ranging from Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative to the novels of Willa Cather, white American writers had generated a fixed and ungrounded notion of "Indianness." Students in the course examine thetradition of fiction through works about and by Indians. In addition to McNickle, Rowlandson, and Cather, authors include Charles Brockden Brown, James FenimoreCooper,HermanMelville, HelenHunt Jackson, Black Elk,N. ScottMomaday, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, and Sherman Alexie.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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