New 223Y
Caribbean Literature and Society
Works studied reflect the social and cultural experiences of the
principal racial groups of the region. Expression of the sociological
and historical characteristics of their societies; the necessity
of writing in a culturally authentic manner. Texts originally
in French are studied in English.
NEW 224Y
Caribbean Thought I
A multidisciplinary exploration of writings pertaining to culture
and consciousness particularly in Afro and Indo Caribbean thought:
theoretical perspective on the implications and consequences of
slavery, the struggle for freedom from the legacy of the plantation
and colonial dependence, responses to domination and exploitation,
race, gender, religion, music.
NEW 324Y
Caribbean Thought II
Critical inquiry at an advanced level into the construction of
society, race, language, religion, culture and gender; theories
of economy, resistance, self-affirmation, continuing colonization
and place of the Caribbean within the global context; internal
and external theoretical perspectives on "the Caribbean personality".
NEW 325H
Caribbean Women Thinkers
This course will examine the historical, social and political
significance of the ideas of four Caribbean women, the problems
they raise within Caribbean phallocentric culture, and their contribution
to thought and knowledge production within such contexts.
NEW 326Y
Indenture, Survival, Change
Indian survival in the Caribbean despite hardships of indenture
labour; social and cultural change; role of Hinduism and Islam;
resistance to Colonial domination; contribution of Indo-Caribbean
intellectuals to literature, politics, and education. (Offered
in alternate years)
ANT 345Y
Social Anthropology of West Africa
Politics, economics, religion, marriage and kinship in traditional,
colonial, and contemporary West African societies.
ANT 451H
West Indian Societies
Major social issues in Caribbean societies. Pre-conquest social
organization, slavery, race and class, plantation and peasant
organization, family structure, cultural pluralism and the nation
state, rural and international migration, social change.
ENG 253Y World Literatures in English
A study of approximately twelve writers from diverse English-speaking cultures, for example, those of Africa, Australia, India, New Zealand, and the West Indies. Authors include at least six of the following: Achebe, Coetzee, Gordimer, Ngugi, p'bitek, Soyinka; Keneally, Stead, Stow, White; Narayan, Rao, Rushdie; Frame; Bennett, Brathwaite, Harris, Naipaul, Walcott.
ENG 472Y Representing the Other in Post-Colonial Literature
A study of post-colonial writers who give expression to the voice of the "other": the silenced, the subaltern and the marginalized. The course considers such writers as Keri Hulme, Mudrooroo Narogin, Jack Davis, Suniti Namjoshi, Thomas King, Bessie Head, Salman Rushdie, Rajiva Wijesinha, Lewis Nkosi, Allan Sealy, Satendra Nandan and Rohinton Mistry.
ENG 473Y Contemporary West Indian Literature
A study of contemporary West Indian literature, including work by Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, Wilson Harris, Kamau Brathwaite, George Lamming, Samuel Selvon, Austin Clarke, Lorna Goodison, Erna Brodber, David Daybeen, Olive Senior, Nourbese Philip, Dionne Brand. The course focuses on relationships between oral and written traditions.
HIS 294Y Caribbean History and Culture
An exploration of changes in the structure of Caribbean society beginning in 1492, including European contact, the conquest of native peoples, the emergence of large plantations, the impact of slavery, patterns of resistance and revolt and the changes brought about by emancipation.
POL 201Y Politics of Development: Issues and Challenges
The political roots and consequences of the economic crisis and mass poverty that afflict many societies in Latin America, Africa and Asia. The efficacy and practically of various development strategies and policies.
POL 305Y Politics and Society in Latin America
The colonial heritage, the failure of nation-states to develop as integrated and autonomous power structures, dependent capitalism and political order, contrasting types of domination, rigid monopolization and the flexible use of the state by the ruling sectors, national revolution and the socialist alternative.
POL 445Y Canada and the Third World
Canadian development assistance, trade and investment and political policies towards the Third World. The ethical, geopolitical, domestic political and economic determinants of these policies and their consequences.
SPA 380H Spanish American Literature: From Conquest to Independence
Literary currents of the colonial period and the 19th century prior to Modernism: the growth of cultural self-expression.
SPA 381H Spanish American Literature from Independence to 1916
Selections from the poetry, short story, novel and essay genres of the period studied to illustrate the role of literature in the pluridisciplinary effort to achieve independence in Spanish America.
SPA 386H The Literature of the Cuban Revolution
A broad selection of the literature underlying and arising from the Cuban Revolution serves as the basis for the study of the relationship between literature and this social phenomenon.