COML 4365 - [Caribbean Crossings]

(crosslisted)
(also FREN 4365)(GB) (SBA-AS)

Spring. 4 credits.

Next offered 2014-2015. Co-meets with COML 6365/FREN 6365.

N. Melas.

A critical overview of Caribbean literature in French, English and Creole with particular attention to the historical, political and aesthetic nodes of connection and disconnection between them. Topics will include the differential cultures of the plantation system and forms of resistance to it, nationalist and anti-colonial movements, language and racial politics, local cultures in global flows. Reading knowledge of French helpful but not required.