ENG 154D - Introduction to Caribbean Literature

Course Cross-listed with UISA 183D
3 credit(s) High Impact Practice: Diversity
This course introduces students to major authors, texts, and themes in Caribbean literature. Special attention is paid to the ideas interrogated in Caribbean Literature (e.g., colonial legacies, hybridity, creolization.) and the genres (poetry, prose, and fiction) in which those ideas are communicated. The Caribbean is synonymous with multiplicity. It is a region of different races, ethnicities, cultures, and languages because it has been shaped by “New World” colonialism, slavery, and indentured servitude. Thus, it is a site of trauma but also of adaptation, innovation, and resistance. We will probe what it means to be from this region and to be part of the Caribbean diaspora. How do scholars and artist confront colonial legacies? How do they wrestle with the Caribbean as a site of inclusion and exclusion? What methods or techniques do they use to redefine and better represent their identities?

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