AMST 6612

Colonial American Literature

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

The American Revolution was a war fought by European settlers against England that ended the colonial domination of these settlers in the founding of the United States. But the settlers were themselves colonizers of American Indian land and nations and African labor: founders of a legalized colonialism that while it ended formally for African Americans with the Thirteenth Amendment continues today under the force of federal Indian law for the Native peoples of what became the United States. Reading Native American, African American, and Euramerican texts within a time frame that extends from 1492 to the end of the 18th century, the course will study the conflicts of colonial settlement that generated the United States past and present.

When Offered Fall.

Course Subfield (LT)

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