Native American Studies Program 47 - Contemporary Native American Poetry

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Dartmouth College

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09S, 10S: 10 As Muscogee poet, Joy Harjo, expresses in the introduction of the anthology, "Reinventing the Enemy's Language", Native peoples are "...still dealing with a holocaust of outrageous proportion in these lands...Many of us at the end of the century are using the 'enemy's language' with which to tell our truths, to sing, to remember ourselves during these troubled times." This course examines the ways contemporary American Indian poets employ literary gestures of resistance to the ongoing effects of colonization, and how their poetry contributes to the survival of tribal memory and the regeneration of tribal traditions and communities. We examine the influence of oral tradition and ritual life upon contemporary poets, as well as the position Native American poetic "voice" occupies in contemporary postcolonial diOpen to all classes. Palmer.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.dartmouth.edu

Phone Number:

(603) 646-1110

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Quarter

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