Lecturer in charge: Dr Anthea Morrison [Room 20 – Old Arts Block]

This course focuses on selected issues in writing across the Caribbean, including the following topics (with emphases which may vary from time to time): the treatment of history, nationalism, gender concerns, neo-colonialism, anti-imperialism and Marxism, religion, choice of language, narrative technique, orature, magic realism, Caribbean literature as counter-discourse.

Level: II

Credits: 3

Prerequisite: ‘A’ level literature or one literature course from Department of Modern Languages and Literatures or Literatures in English.

Instruction: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial

Evaluation: 1 seminar-type presentation 10%
1 term paper 40%
1 two-hour exam 50%

Prescribed Texts:
Danticat, Edwige. Breath Eyes Memory (Soho pb)
Garcia, Cristina. The Aguero Sisters (Ballantine pb)
Roumain, Jacques. Masters of the Dew (Heinemann pb)