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Course Description: This course examines contemporary Native American poetry, fiction, essays, and theories as both expressions and interrogations of Indian and tribal identity and culture and as strategies for survival within the larger American context. While we will focus on contemporary writers and the literature they produce, we will also look at specific Native oral and cultural traditions and tropes (like the Trickster) and the historic, cultural, social, religious, aesthetic, and political contexts out of which contemporary Native Americans write. This means we will think about the significant issues facing American Indian people on reservations, in cities, and across the nation (and continent) from stereotypes and discrimination to addiction; domestic violence to hate crimes; social, political, and economic opportunities to disenfranchisement; and more. Most importantly, we will think about how Native American writers imagine themselves and the ideas of identity, self, place, nature and nation, and look closely and think about celebration, ceremony, and living cultures, cosmologies, and encounters. Who will we read? Joy Harjo, Louise Erdrich, Gerald Vizenor, Louis Owens, Leslie Marmon Silko, Tommy Orange, N. Scott Mommaday, and more!