NASX 440

3 credits, undergraduate level-400

Instructor: Dr. Matthew Herman

Course Description

This course examines the history of Native American writing in Montana. We'll survey this material across periods, genres, tribal nations, and themes, and we'll read it from many angles: close reading, social and historical analysis, and political criticism. We'll also entertain core questions along the way: What is the history of Native American writing in Montana? What are the major periods and the dominant forms? How and why have these changed over time? How is Montana Native writing read and regarded? How should we read and regard this material?

Readings for this course may include, but are not limited to:

*Resource and materials list subject to change. Check with the instructor before purchasing books!*

  • Magpie Earling, Debra. (2002). Perma Red. Blue Hen.
  • Jones, Stephen Graham. (2008). Ledfeather. Fiction Collective 2. 
  • McNickle, D'Arcy. (1978). The Surrounded. University of New Mexico Press. 
  • McNickle, D'Arcy. (1988). Wind From and Enemy Sky. University of New Mexico Press.
  • Snell, Alma. (2001). Grandmother's Grandchild: My Crow Indian Life. Bison Books. 
  • Welch, James. (2011 revised ed.). Fools Crow. Penguin Classics.
  • Welch, James. (2008 revised ed.). Winter in the Blood. Penguin Classics.

Instructor

Dr. Matt Herman

Matthew Herman earned his Ph.D. in English and a certificate in cultural studies from SUNY Stony Brook. He came to MSU from Stone Child Tribal College on the Rocky Boys Reservation in northwest Montana, where he taught in the Liberal Arts Program, and coordinated the Rocky Boy Tribal History Project. He has published in the areas of contemporary Native American literature, American cultural studies, composition pedagogy, and Indigenous political theory.His first book, Politics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Native American Literature: Across Every Border, was published in 2009 by Routledge.

Tuition and Fees

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