<p>Seminar, three hours. Historical approach to modern Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean literature, retracing search for cultural identity, beginning with negritude movement’s claim to Africa as expressed in Aimé Césaire’s classic poem <cite>Cahier d un retour au pays natal</cite> and ending with consideration of dispersion of identities in work of writers and intellectuals who contend with problem of diasporic Caribbean culture. S/U or letter grading.</p>

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Caribbean Literature from Negritude to Diaspora

COM LIT 277

4 units