Caribbean Lit in English

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This course explores the intersectionalities of racial, ethnic, and linguistic identities within Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean literary traditions. In dialogue these literary traditions complicate a monolithic Caribbean narrative. With careful study of language, class, color, and identity we determine how authors contend with and memorialize French, British, and American imperialisms in the Caribbean. Likely authors include Michelle Cliff, Edwidge Danticat, Merle Hodge, Thomas Glave, George Lamming, and Jamaica Kincaid.