FR 333 - Caribbean Identities in Movement

(3.00 cr.)

Prerequisite: FR 216 or written permission of the instructor. Examines dynamic shifts in Francophone Caribbean literature, culture, and identity throughout the twentieth century. This course analyses the particularities of the Indigénisme, Négritude, Créolité. and Antillanité movements. Moreover, it explores how major themes in Francophone Caribbean literature—including colonization, slavery, abolition, racism, commemoration, cultural belonging, linguistic tensions, Creole resistance, and ecology—inform Caribbean identity today. IL