FREN 481ERace, Roots & Identity

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This course will focus on the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe, both "overseas departments" of France. What big ideas with global implications were born in these tiny islands? What can we learn about ourselves and what it is to be human by looking at the world through French Caribbean eyes? This introduction to (the) French Caribbean experience(s) and worldview(s) focuses on literature and cultural theory and also includes film, cuisine, traditional music and dance, Creole language, and Carnival. Discussions in English. Counts toward French major or minor if readings, papers, and discussion posts are done in French.