Representation, Colonialism, and the Tropical World

Catalog description

Examines representations of the tropical world across a range of visual culture forms, including photography, and film. Also, focuses on ideas and images that have become synonymous with the tropics--sublime landscapes, excessive sexuality, contagion and disease--and their entanglement with colonial projects. Students will engage dominant representations as well as subaltern texts that seek to rework or undo those images.