Semester Offered: First Semester Credits (Range): 3 hours Attribute:3HU, CD
Taught in English. This course examines the relationship between literature and folklore in the Francophone, Anglophone, Spanish-speaking and Dutch Caribbean. Central issues include: the creolization of cultures and presence of a creole aesthetic in literature and the traditional arts (music, dance, theater, painting, etc.), the relationship of colonialism and tourism to cultural productions, the re-writing of “master texts” from the Western canon, the dialogue between oral and written literatures, and the literary re-writings of history. Enrollment Limit: 15. Instructor: A. Cara Cross List Information Cross-listed with CMPL 457.
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