ENGL 5605 - Studies in the Literature and Culture of the Colonial Americas

3 hours

Study of writing from and about the conquest, colonization, and settlement of the Americas. Covers such major writers as Christopher Columbus, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Bartolome de Las Casas, Thomas Harriot, John Winthrop, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Mary Rowlandson, Cotton Mather, William Byrd, Thomas Jefferson and others. Possible topics of study include transatlantic and hemispheric exchange and migration, travel, slavery, captivity, Creole subjectivities, religion, and independence movements.

Prerequisite(s): None.

May be repeated for credit as topics vary.