ENG 6900 — Caribbean Literature
This course examines the experience of Caribbean peoples in literary works from colonialism to the present day. By reading a range of Caribbean writers, includingAimé Césaire, Derek Walcott, Edwidge Danticat, Frantz Fanon, George Lamming, Jamaica Kincaid, Jean Rhys, Junot Diaz, Mahadai Das, and Merle Hodge, students willconsider how Caribbean people have negotiated issues of identity and self, racial dynamics, what it means to be “Afro-Caribbean,” nationalism, gender, politics, creolization, carnival culture, class conflict, and globalization.