This course looks at contemporary Indigenous Latin America through literature. It focuses primarily on texts written by Indigenous authors in different genres and languages; and it includes some texts depicting Indigenous peoples from other vantage points, whether it’s in attempts to build solidarity or to revisit historical accounts of national formation––we will ask to what effect. We will analyze the texts’ genre structures and aesthetic devices, as well as situate them in a broader set of literary conversations and traditions. Throughout the course, we will discuss the political stakes of the literary texts we read. We will see the works operate in many ways: for instance, they may build power and resistance, bear witness to the brutalization of Indigenous peoples, or uphold narratives of Indigenous erasure. Land is constantly present in the texts as a position of enunciation, a site of struggle, and a topic of reflection. And so, we will ask: what does it mean to write on stolen land?