ENGL 4625 - Contemporary Native American Fiction

(crosslisted) AIIS 4625, AMST 4627
(LA-AS)

Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

E. Cheyfitz.

Since the 1960s, American Indians have been producing a significant body of award-wining novels and short stories. In 1969, for example, N. Scott Momaday, from the Kiowa nation, won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel House Made of Dawn, and in 2012 Louise Erdrich, who is Anishinaabe, won the National Book Award for her novel The Round House. In between these two notable moments we can list an impressive number of Native storytellers whose work is aesthetically powerful, offering us a narrative of the United States that counters the official history.