Indigenous stories are all too often excluded from the common curriculum. This course will examine important literary themes through the cultural stories of the Lenape Native Americans—the indigenous people of eastern PA, southern NY, NJ, and northern DE. Students will experience Lenape stories through oral and written traditions, including cosmological and etiological myths, trickster tales, stories addressing settler contact and colonization, and wisdom anecdotes from Lenape elders. Through these stories, we will examine themes of myth theory, culture transmission, contact zones, adaptation & translation theory, colonization, oral vs. written tradition, and selection bias in “canonical” curriculum.
- 教師: DePaul Adam