Professor: Daniel Heath Justice
Th - 9:00am to 11:45am

The past forty years have seen significant methodological and theoretical shifts in the scholarly field of Indigenous literary studies, moving from ethnographically inflected outsider analyses of culture and identity or as extensions of nation-state literatures to Indigenous-grounded concerns of peoplehood, land, language, and sovereignty in intellectual and artistic production. The range of literary forms, genres, issues, and regions represented in the scholarship has increased dramatically as well, as has attention to Indigenous voices in the archive, becoming more intentionally international in scope, culturally specific in concern, and expansive in consideration of genre and form across time and space. The demographics of the field have changed, too, now centring Indigenous thinkers among the field’s major theorists and recognizing imaginative experimentation alongside continuity of Indigenous traditions and grounded knowledge. This course offers a focused analysis of significant histories, archives, methods, and conversations in Indigenous literary studies, with particular emphasis on the field’s intellectual and creative genealogies.