ENGL 275 - Critical Ethnic Studies: Caribbean Discourse

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)

A topics course examining the multiple forms of cultural expression and resistance that arise in response to systemic racial oppression. This course focuses on transnational and/or historical variants of racial and colonial domination. Key concepts and methodologies may include border studies, comparative racializations, decolonization, diaspora, hip hop, indigeneity, nation, and sovereignty. Contents and approaches vary from year to year.

Topic for 2014/15a: Caribbean Discourse. (Same as AFRS 275 and LALS 275 ) Study of the work of artists and intellectuals from the Caribbean. Analysis of fiction, non-fiction, and popular cultural forms such as calypso and reggae within their historical contexts. Attention to cultural strategies of resistance to colonial domination and to questions of community formation in the post-colonial era. May include some discussion of post-colonial literary theory and cultural studies. Ms. Paravisini.

Open to sophomores, junior, and seniors with one unit of 100-level work or by permission of the associate chair.

Two 75-minute periods.