ENGLISH 782 / Seed Stories of Indigenous and Black Survivance

3 unit(s)

(Cross-listed as CULTR ST 782)

Prerequisite(s): Enrollment in the English MA, English PhD, or CSCT MA programme, or by permission of the department

This course synthesizes seed stories of survivance by Indigenous and Black women writers whose novels interweave homelands, histories, and temporalities, and embrace futurities of normalized Indigenous and Black presence. Students will analyse the ways that Indigenous and Black authors, protagonists, and stories restore and uplift Indigenous and Black thrivance by challenging anti-Indigenous and anti-Black racism.