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Syllabus ENGL 590 CIC Newberry Seminar

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Syllabus

Course Information
Course title: CIC Graduate Seminar in American Indian Studies
Course number: 149:250
Course description: “Authors and Indians” explores the complex interactions between American Indian intellectuals and Euro-American print, manuscript, and verbal art practices in the nineteenth century. Rather than taking these Euro-American protocols as the “given” or ground of Native American verbal artistry, we will attempt to construct a theory of native tribal writing that takes into account the fact that Native people in North American had began to write books, print newspapers, and engage in written polemics of all kinds early in the nineteenth century. The Newberry Library's Ayer and Graff collections contain many of the most important original works in nineteenth-century Native American print culture, and will therefore provide this course with primary texts and hand-on experience with native-authored and native-published book objects and manuscripts. This course has three interlocking sets of readings. The first set is comprised of theoretical works that explore the week's theme (e.g. “literacy,” “authorship,” “tribal writing”). The second set is made up of Native texts that engage these themes. The third group consists of Newberry Special Collections materials that we will view and study in our effort to explore the sociology of American Indian books.
Course date: Friday, January 21, 2005 through Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Location: Newberry Library, Chicago
Meeting day(s): TBA
Prerequisite(s): Instructor Approval
Course Requirements
Requirements: Graduate Student Conference in Madison. Students must also complete a reading journal and a research paper (20 pp. max.).
Textbooks
Required reading: Apess, William. On Our Own Ground: The Complete Writings of William Apess (UMASS, 1992).
Required reading: McKenzie, D. F. Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts (Cambridge, 1999).
Required reading: Murray, Laura, ed. “To Do Good to My Indian Brethren”: The Writings of Joseph Johnson, 1751-
Instructor Information
Name: Phillip Round
Email: phillip-round@uiowa.edu
Office location: 317 EPB
Office hours: By Appointment
Phone: 319-335-0476
Schedule of Class Meetings and Assignments
Week 1
Lesson: “Native Literacy and The Sociology of Texts”
Date: Friday, January 21, 2005
Readings: Axtell, James. “The Power of Print in the Eastern Woodlands,” WMQ, 3rd. Ser. (1987): 300-309. Besnier, Niko. “Literacy and the Notion of Person on Nukaelae Atoll,” American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 93. No. 3 (Sept., 1991): 570-587. Donaldson, Laura. “Writing the Talking Stick: Alphabetic Literacy as Colonial Technology and Postcolonial Appropriation,” American Indian Quarterly 22 (Winter/Spring 1998): 46-63. McKenzie, D. F., Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts (Cambridge, 1999). [selections] Mignolo, Walter, “The Materiality of Reading and Writing Cultures: The Chain of Sounds, Graphic Signs, and Sign Carrriers” in The Darker Side of the Renaissance (Michigan, 2003): 69-122. Wogan, Peter, “Perceptions of European Literacy in Early Contact Situations,” Ethnohistory41 (Summer, 1994): 407-429. Newberry Materials: Mamusse wunneetupanatamwe up biblum God (Holy Bible in Massachusett) Ayer *421 M435 B5 1663 Cherokee Phoenix Ayer 1 C 45 John Quinney, The Memorial of John Quinney Ayer 4A 950 The Indian Primer (1720) * Ayer 421 M434 E43 1720 William Apess, A Son of the Forest (1831) E 5 . A 6415 E. Pauline Johnson, The White Wampum (1895) Ayer 438 J67 1895 Simon Pokegon, The Redman's Rebuke (1893) Ayer 251 P651 P7 1893 Zitkala Sa, American Indian Stories (1921) Ayer 251 D 151 z 82 1921
Week 2
Date: Thursday, February 17, 2005
Readings: Readings: Greg Sarris, “Reading Louise Erdrich: Love Medicine as Home Medicine,” in Keeping Slug Woman Alive (California, 1993): 115-146. selections from William Gilmore, Reading Becomes a Necessity of Life (Tennessee, 1989). Roger Chartier, “Communities of Readers,” in The Order of Books (Stanford, 1994): 1-24. Samson Occom, Sermon on the Death of Moses Paul (1771) ---. “Personal Narrative” Joseph Johnson, selections from “To Do Good . . .” Hendrick Aupaumut, from A Short Narration of My Last Journey to the Western Country (circa. 1794). Newberry Materials: Samson Occom, Sermon on the Death of Moses Paul (1771) Hunter, First Reading Book (1858) [Ayer 3A 704] ---. Kukwidetwee (1874) [Ayer 3A 545 no. 2] Bible (1855) [Ayer 3A 710] Stevens, Sioux Spelling Book (1836) [Ayer 3A 493] Wright, A. Ne ja gah'ndh (1847) [Ayer 4A 2810] ---. Ga Nok [Ayer 4A 2812] ---. Ga wani (1866) [Ayer 3A 648] Dakota (1866) [Ayer 3A 478] The Dakota First Reader (1839) [Graff 836] Collected Memorials [Ayer C 2165 M 4 1846; Ayer C 2165 C 2 A ; Ayer 2501 I 5 B 7 1872] John Quinney, The Memorial of John Quinney Ayer 4A 950 Memorial of the Muscogee Nation (1852)
Week 3
Lesson: “The Right Whereof He Claims as Author:”
Date: Friday, March 25, 2005
Readings: Readings: William Apess, A Son of the Forest (1831), in On Our Own Ground, pp. 1-98. Roger Chartier, “Figures of the Author,” in The Order of Books (Stanford, 1994): 25-60. selections from Meredith McGill, American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 (Penn, 2003). selections from Grantland S. Rice, The Transformation of Authorship in America (Chicago, 1997). Greg Sarris, “Reading Narrated American Indian Lives,” in Keeping Slug Woman Alive (California, 1993): 79-114. Newberry Materials: Samson Occom, Sermon on the Death of Moses Paul [reprint editions] Case E5 P2857 William Apess, A Son of the Forest (1831) George Copway, Life, History, and Travels (1847) Paul Cuffee, Memoir of Paul Cuffee (London, 1840) [Ayer 247 C845 A73 1840] David Cusick, David Cusick's Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations (1827) Ayer *251 I 611 C 9 1827 ---. David Cusick's Sketches . . . (1848) Ayer *251 I 611 C8 1848 Peter Jones, The Life of Peter Jones Jones, Life (1860) [Ayer 251 M6171 J 7 1860] Laah Ceil Tubbee, A Sketch of the Life of Okah Tubbee (1848) Graff 5095 Eleazar Williams, Life of Te-ho-ra-gwa-ne-gen (1859) Ayer 251 I6171 T22 1859 John Rollin Ridge, The Poems of John Rollin Ridge (1868)
Assignments: Roundtable Discussion Proposal Due
Week 4
Lesson: CIC AIS Consortium Graduate Conference
Date: Friday, April 8, 2005
Assignments: Roundtable Discussion: “Authorship, Manuscript, Print, and Performance in Native America” Paper Proposal Due
Week 5
Lesson: “Tribal Writing”
Date: Friday, April 29, 2005
Readings: William Apess, Eulogy for King Philip (1831), in On Our Own Ground, pp. 275-310. ---. Indian Nullification (1835), in On Our Own Ground, pp. 163-274. Louis Owens, “Other Destinies, Other Plots: An Introduction to Indian Novels,” in Other Destinies: Understanding the American Indian Novel (Oklahoma, 1992): 3-31. Gerald Vizenor, selections from Manifest Manners (Wesleyan,1994) and Postindian Conversations (Nebraska, 1999). Robert Allen Warrior. Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions (Minnesota, 1995). Craig S. Womack, “Alice Callahan's Wynema: Fledgling Attempt,” in Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism (Minnesota, 1999): 107-130. Newberry Materials: TBA

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