ENL 366 The Caribbean Experience in Literature

3 Credit(s) WC

Caribbean literature reflects how communities across the region have preserved and created cultures, languages, and identities through their acts of survival and resistance. Caribbean writers draw on and develop Indigenous, African, European, and Asian traditions to weave distinctly Caribbean stories with the voices and views of this multicultural Creole region. This course examines Caribbean writers and their contributions to Caribbean literature and its diaspora. It considers how colonialism still affects the Caribbean and how writers in various islands of the Caribbean and its diaspora negotiate the legacies of empire, slavery, and indenture as they articulate their own spirituality, language, environment, and identity. 3 Lecture hours. Not open to students who have received credit for ENG 399. Prerequisite: W-1