Native American Oral Traditional Literature (Identical to English 60, section 6)
11W : 10
Native American oral literatures constitute a little-known but rich and complex dimension of the American literary heritage. This course will examine the range of oral genres in several tribes. Since scholars from around the world are studying oral literatures as sources of information about the nature of human creativity, the course will involve examining major theoretical approaches to oral texts.
Dist: LIT; WCult: NW. Palmer.