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ENGLISH 122-A21: Texts and Contexts
Caribbean Recreations
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:00-1:45pm and Thursdays 3:30-4:30pm or by appointment
Office: Humanities Centre 4th floor, room 32
A wide variety of authors have positioned the Caribbean as a central location of the Western Hemisphere. Understanding this centrality can help readers comprehend their own place as residents of the Americas. This course will begin with creations and recreations in English literature and then read Caribbean responses to those writings. With this background, we will consider other meanings of the term Recreations with a look at popular music and tourism. Finally, the class will turn to Guantánamo, perhaps the most uncanny Caribbean Recreation of the early twenty-first century.
In addition to assigned readings, active student participation—a requirement that makes up a large portion of the work in this course—will direct class content. With an emphasis on literary critical theory and an open exchange of ideas, this class will provide an introduction to English literature studies for students contemplating this major and practice in close reading and analysis, group discussion, and academic writing useful in the pursuit of all disciplines.
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