FREN 3930

Hybridity, Creoleness, Coolitude

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2023-2024 Catalog. Courses of Study 2023-2024 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

This course is a broad survey of theoretical and aesthetic works that have emerged within the context of postcolonial studies, decolonial and critical race theories in an attempt to grapple with trans-cultural forms of racial and national identity that characterize the conact zones produced both historically by colonialism, slavery, and indenture labor, and more recently by migration. The seminar will ask the following questions: How did theories of hybridity emerge in the colonial context, and how did they evolve in their postcolonial enunciation? How did Carribean and Indian Ocean intellectual traditions interact with and refute hybridity through respectively, Creoleness and Coolitude? How do more recent decolonial approaches rearticulate questions of race in settle colonial contexts

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisites: FREN 2310, or CASE Q++, or permission of instructor.

Language Requirement Satisfies Option 1.

Distribution Category (ALC-AS, CA-AS)

When Offered Fall.

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