African American Studies 155 Literature of the Caribbean: Significant Themes

Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: Reading and composition requirement. An introduction to representative works, themes, and discourses in Caribbean literatures--produced by authors from the Anglophone, Creolophone, Francophone, and Hispanophone areas within Plantation America. Includes examinations of indigenous folkways and nation languages as sources for a re-examination of Caribbean culture and literary history.