Caribbean Literature (=AFR 297)

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The Caribbean is key to any understanding of the New World. Caribbean Literature takes students beyond the islands’ popular music, food, and landscapes-ah, those sandy beaches!-to an understanding of the formation of cultures from Europe, Africa, and India that have produced three winners of Nobel prizes-two in Literature and one for Economics. In novels, poems and plays we’ll examine the ways in which this particular part of the “Empire” wrote back to Europe before creating its own distinctive body of literature. The course is open to all students, and knowledge of literary theory is not a prerequisite. The most relevant theories will be taught to the class. Satisfies the diversity requirement of the English major. Satisfies a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: Latin America/Caribbean). Satisfies South Asian Studies minor requirement. Satisfies a requirement in the Global Literary Theory interdisciplinary minor. Satisfies the LTRQ Ways of Knowing requirement. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.