WRITING THE CARIBBEAN: RECURRING THEMES IN CONTEMPORARY CARIBBEAN LITERATURE

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The purpose of this course is to analyze the recurring themes of contemporary Caribbean literature. Study topics such as plantation, migration, identity, transculturation, slavery, among others. The literary complexities and their cultural production will be analyzed in general, which characterize the nations of that cultural space. LITE 905 BLURRING BOUNDARIES BETWEEN FICTION AND HISTORY: THE NEW HISTORICAL NOVEL IN THE CARIBBEAN 3 CREDITS The course focuses on the analysis of the key concepts, pointed out by critics (Menton, Aínsa, Pons) of the rewriting of history, intertextuality, metafiction and parody. It analyzes how these discursive strategies reformulate the notion of truth and probl ematize metanarratives, turning the new historical novel into one of the main literary manifestations of postmodernity. .