ENG-454 Caribbean Cosmopolitanisms

GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts)
Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar
Reading across Caribbean literatures, cultures, languages, and theories which organize the region, exploring the ways in which cosmopolitanisms shape the literary and cultural productions of the Caribbean. Attention paid to the ways cultural hybridity emerges against the persistence of a mythological, cultural, and national homogeneity. Authors might include William Shakespeare, Charlotte Bronte, Michelle Cliff, Junot Diaz, Christina Diaz, Jamaica Kincaid, Earl Lovelace, and Jean Rhys. 4 credits.