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Complicating the Colonizer / Colonized Binary

Complicating the Colonizer / Colonized Binary. Monday, August 31. Tribal Narratives. Identify the tribe and key characteristics: region, language, lifestyle, etc.

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Complicating the Colonizer / Colonized Binary

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  1. Complicating the Colonizer / Colonized Binary Monday, August 31

  2. Tribal Narratives • Identify the tribe and key characteristics: region, language, lifestyle, etc. • What does the narrative reveal to us about the tribe’s culture and their connection to the larger themes of this course (land/environment, race, class, gender, religion, law/justice, education, family, health, economic opportunity, freedom/equality, etc.) • Look specifically at least two passages / quotes • Designate someone to email summary of group’s work to Jim Iroquois Cherokee Pima Lakota Hupa

  3. Columbus • What is the connection between writing and empire? • At what points in the text can we see Columbus’ European cultural background influence and shape his perceptions of the “new world”? • Keep your eyes peeled (funny metaphor!) for imagery and figurative language in the text.

  4. Caveza De Vaca • How does the text simultaneously assert and complicate a cultural binary between colonizer and native? • What is the relationship between Cabeza de Vaca’s text and the development of empire and an imperial rationale? Consider De Vaca’s description of the land and of the people (the idea of De Vaca’s twin identities as promoter/entrepreneur and anthropologist might help here?

  5. Great Moment in American Literature “The Christians did not like this…They said that they were the lords of that land, and that the Indians should obey and serve them, but the Indians believed very little or nothing of what they were saying. Speaking among themselves, they said instead the the Christians were lying, because we had come from the East and they had come from the West; that we healed the sick and they killed the healthy; that we were naked and barefooted and they were dressed and on horseback, with lances; that we coveted nothing but instead gave ayay everything that was given to us and kept none of it, while the sole purpose of the others was to steal everything they found, never giving anything to anybody…” (109-110)

  6. VA vs MA • What are some of the enduring questions of American culture and society that these texts introduce? • What do these texts reveal about the differences between Virginia and New England and how these colonial communities emerge? • How does the James Revel narrative differ in focus and tone from the two “official” narratives presented by Smith and Bradford? • What role does figurative language play in these texts and the development of their cultural messages? • Check barbaric yawps; • add Revel poem and background on Puritans and VA to your reading

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