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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A variable content course designed to provide detailed historical and theoretical studies of African-world literary traditions from the Old Kingdom to the present. Using the methods of comparative literature, the course focuses on one or more selected topics such as postcolonial literature, aesthetic ideology, influence, gender, genre formation, literary periods, literary movements, literature, and the other arts and oral traditions. African, African American and Caribbean Studies 159
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In-depth study of one or more outstanding black authors from Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas or masterpieces by such authors. Emphasis is on the distinguishing aesthetic and ideological qualities of the texts and their defining contributions to the traditions in which they belong. Authors include Nobel Prize winners such as Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, and other prominent writers like Wilson Harris, Chinua Achebe, L. S. Senghor, Simon Schwartz-Bart, and Ralph Ellison.
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Analysis of Haitian society and culture, both before and after the Revolution, to ascertain the nature and level of social transformation during the period of sovereignty and an examination of the impact of United States intervention on Haitian independence and development. In addition, the particular features of Haitian culture and its connectedness with its African cultural past are analyzed in light of the folk-elite and color-class contradiction that continue to characterize Haitian society and politics.
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3.00 Credits
A selected survey of major twentieth-century writers from the English-speaking Caribbean, such as V.S. Naipul, George Lamming, Derek Walcott, Edgar Mittelholzer, Samuel Selvon, Jamaica Kincaid, and others. The works of these authors are explored for the light they throw on Caribbean society and culture, as well as for the unique features, if any, of Caribbean literature: essays, drama, poetry, and fiction.
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3.00 Credits
The course is concerned with literature from the non- English speaking Caribbean. Works of major authors are analyzed for major themes and elucidation of the Caribbean experience.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of the African diaspora in the New World, including an examination of the survival, retention, and development of vital and enduring cultural forms and social organization created by peoples of African origin. A diachronic approach to understanding the African and New World cultural interaction as dynamic and creative response to forced migration and labor exploitation.
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3.00 Credits
The African American experience as depicted in literature by and about African Americans. Focuses on biographies, autobiographies, and fiction.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses mainly on African American drama, poetry, and essays.
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3.00 Credits
Deals with post-independence governmental political parties and ideological inclinations among African states. Emphasis is on the origin and evolution of political institutions and their function within contemporary Africa.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the major problems facing the Caribbean today. The focus is on the present factors affecting the development of Caribbean societies and the difficulties confronting national and regional efforts to transform their economies. The basic economic, political, and cultural features of the Caribbean are defined and analyzed. Attention is also given to initiatives at regional integration as well as changing United States-Caribbean relations.
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