ENG 572Z - Poco Theory and Lit Crit

Credits: 4

Studies 20th-century postcolonial literature and theory to examine the makings and meanings of race and desire in the regional Caribbean and its diasporas. Considering the multiple arenas through which race is made: the economy, culture, religion, law, psychology, sexuality and desire, it explores how race intersects with gender and sexuality to produce national and global inequities and the resistances to these efforts from the colonial period to the present. () Offered spring or fall