COM LIT 277
Caribbean Literature from Negritude to Diaspora
Comparative Literature · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Historical approach to modern Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean literature, retracing search for cultural identity, beginning with negritude movement’s claim to Africa as expressed in Aimé Césaire’s classic poem Cahier d'un retour au pays natal and ending with consideration of dispersion of identities in work of writers and intellectuals who contend with problem of diasporic Caribbean culture.
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