ENG 454 - Caribbean Cosmopolitanisms

Institution:

Furman University

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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,l cultural, and national homogeneity. Texts may include Shakespeare's The Tempest, Bronte' s Jane Eyre, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, V.S. Naipaul' s Mimic Men, Alejo Carpentier's A Kingdom of This World, C.L.R. James's Minty Alley, Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones, Derek Walcott's The Star-Apple Kingdom, and Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy. 4 credits.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.furman.edu

Phone Number:

(864) 294-2000

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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