Humanities 2310 0a an Introduction to Caribbean Studies a founders College Foundations Course Course Directors: Patrick Taylor
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An Introduction to Caribbean Studies A Founders College Foundations Course Course Directors: Patrick Taylor CERLAC, 824 YRT taylorp@yorku.ca 416-736-2100 ext. 33320 Office Hours: Wed. 3:30-4:20; Fri. 9:30-10:20 Maxine Wood 259 Vanier College 416-736-2100 ext. 77380 maxinew@yorku.ca Office Hours: Wed. 2:30-3:20; Fri. 11:30-12:20 Teaching Assistants: Tanita Muneshwar tanita@yorku.ca Frank Scherer fscherer@yorku.ca Course Secretary: Carolin Potter 207 Vanier College 416-736-2100 ext. 77014 cpotter@yorku.ca Office Hours: Mondays - Fridays, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. YORK UNIVERSITY TORONTO 2012-2013 HUMANITIES 2310 9.0A Course Description: This course introduces students to the major cultural characteristics of the contemporary Caribbean in its global context through an examination of the work of scholars, writers, and artists of the region and its diaspora. The course uses lectures, films and readings (scholarly works, novels, short stories, poems, song lyrics and other texts) to explore the historical roots and contemporary manifestations of the struggles for independence and national identity in the region. The course also examines the role of race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality in the negotiation of individual and collective identities. The course is pan-Caribbean in perspective but emphasizes the experiences of the Anglophone Caribbean and its diaspora. Learning Objectives: 1. Scholarly Content The principal objective of this course is to enable students to understand and appreciate the complexity of Caribbean peoples and cultures from an interdisciplinary humanities perspective. In the process, students are expected to gain an understanding of colonialism and the post-colonial experience as they relate to the contemporary world. Students will be better able to appreciate both cultural diversity and the underlying human values that characterize global life today. 2. Transferable Critical Skills This course is a second-year foundations course. As such, its goals include enhancing the ability of students to think critically about their world and how it is represented. In addition, the course aims to strengthen the capacity of students to read and analyze texts critically, pursue advanced scholarly research using library and Internet resources, write clearly and persuasively, and present their ideas orally in interesting and convincing ways. Lecture: Wednesdays 12:30-2:30 p.m., SLH A Tutorials: 01 Wednesday 4:30-6:30 McLaughlin College 111 02 Friday 12:30-2:30 Ross N146 03 Thursday 4:30-6:30 TEL 1016 04 Wednesday 4:30-6:30 McLaughlin College 112 05 Friday 8:30-10:30 McLaughlin College 109 06 Friday 10:30-12:30 Founders College 108 Required Readings: *Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night Course Kit (Volume I, Fall 2012) Course Kit (Volume II, Winter 2013) The book to be purchased is marked with an asterisk () on the course outline. Other readings are available in two duplicated course kits to be purchased from the York University Bookstore, and song lyrics, which will be provided. Films: Although most films will be shown during lectures, some may not be licensed for classroom use and students may have to borrow them directly from the Scott Moving Image Library. Course Evaluation Essay # 1 5% October 3, 2012 Essay # 2 10% November 7, 2012 Mid-Term Test 10% November 28, 2012 First Research Proposal and Annotated Bibliography 10% January 30, 2013 Research Essay 20% March 20, 2013 Oral Presentation 10% Tutorial Participation 10% Final Exam 25% To Be Announced The research essay will not be accepted without an annotated bibliography submitted within the set deadline.
The Caribbean: Context and ApproachFilm: Life and Debt Gordon K. Lewis, “The Sociohistorical Setting” Stuart Hall, “Negotiating Caribbean Identities” Mighty Gabby, “Jack” (song) Week 03. September 19 Oral Tradition and OralityFilm: Talk and More Talk Rex Nettleford, “Communication with Ourselves: The Caribbean Artist and Society” Edward Kamau Brathwaite, “History of the Voice” Louise Bennett, “Me Bredda” and “Bans a Killing” (poems) Bob Marley, “Redemption Song” (song) Mighty Duke, “What is Calypso” (song) Week 04. September 26Indigenous CulturesFilm: Indigenous Survivors Irving Rouse, “Introduction” to The Tainos “The First Missionary: Raymond Breton (1647)” and “Jean Baptiste Labat: A Sojurn in Dominica (1722)” (missionary sources)
ESSAY # 1 DUEEuropean Expansion and Indigenous ResistanceFilm: The Sword and the Cross Hilary Beckles, “Kalinago Resistance” Garnette Joseph, “Five Hundred Years of Indigenous Resistance” José Barreiro, “Survival Stories” Mutabaruka, “Columbus Ghost” (poem)
The Atlantic TradeFilm: Ship of Slaves: Middle Passage Joseph Inikori, “The Slave Trade and the Atlantic Economies, 1451-1870” Eric Williams, “The Origin of Negro Slavery”
Film: Iron in the Soul (selection) Vincent Bakpetu Thompson, “The Plantation Hierarchy” Barbara Bush, “White ‘Ladies,’ Coloured ‘Favourites’ and Black ‘Wenches’ Edward Kamau Brathwaite, “Creolization”
Gordon K. Lewis, “The Anti-Slavery Ideology”Verene Shepherd, “‘Petticoat Rebellion?’: the Black Woman’s Body and Voice in the Struggles for Freedom in Colonial Jamaica” FALL CO-CURRICULAR DAYS – OCTOBER 31-NOVEMBER 4 Week 09. November 07ESSAY # 2 DUE Feature Film: The Last Supper Week 10. November 14EmancipationFilm: Iron in the Soul (selection) Bridget Brereton, “Society and Culture in the Caribbean” Woodville K. Marshall, “‘We Be Wise to Many More Tings’: Black Hopes and Expectations of Emancipation” Olive Senior, “Window” (short story) Jean Rhys, “Our Gardener” (poem) and Wide Sargasso Sea (selection) Week 11. November 21 Indentureship Film: Worlds Apart Kusha Haraksingh, “Aspects of the Indian Experience in the Caribbean” Rhoda Reddock, “Indian Women and Indentureship in Trinidad and Tobago 1845-1917” Walton Look-Lai, “Life and Labor on the Plantations: The Chinese” Cheddi Jagan, “Growing Up” (autobiography) Week 12. November 28MID-TERM TEST Term IIWeek 1. January 9Haiti: Revolution and IndependenceFilm: Out of Africa (selection)Michel-Rolph Trouillot, “Culture, Colour and Politics”Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, “The Context of Haitian Development and Underdevelopment”Edwidge Danticat, “Children of the Sea” (short story)David Rudder, “Haiti” (song)Week 02. January 16The French Caribbean: Political Integration and Cultural Identity Film: La Grande Illusion Justin Daniel, “The Construction of Dependency” Frantz Fanon, “West Indians and Africans” Aimé Césaire, “An Interview” Léon Damas, “Bargain” “Hiccup” “Just Like the Legend” Week 03. January 23The Hispanic Caribbean: The Myth of Whiteness Film: Paradise Lost Michiel Baud, “Constitutionally White: The Forging of a National Identity in the Dominican Republic” Silvio Torres-Saillant, “Colonial Migration and Theoric Awakening” Ana Lydia Vega, “The Day it all Happened” and “Port-au-Prince Below” (short stories) Week 04. January 30 RESEARCH PROPOSAL AND ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRPAHY DUE Cuba: Race, Nation and Revolution Film: Havana Kids José Martí, “Our America” Franklin Knight, “Cuba: Politics, Economy and Society” Nancy Morejón, “Race and Nation” and “Grounding the Race Dialogue: Diaspora and Nation” Nicolás Guillén, “I Came on a Slave Ship” (poem) Week 05. February 6 The Anglophone Caribbean: Nationalism and IndependenceFilm: Shades of Freedom C.L.R. James, “From Toussaint L’Ouverture to Fidel Castro” Percy Hintzen, “Race and Creole Ethnicity in the Caribbean Louise Bennett, “Dear Departed Federation” and “Independence” (poems) Short Shirt, “Illusion” (song) Buju Banton, “Untold Stories” (song) Mighty Sparrow “Federation”
Africa and IdentityFilm: Out of Africa (selection) Marcus Garvey, “Africa for the Africans,” and “Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World.” Walter Rodney, “Black Power—Its Relevance to the West Indies” Martin Carter, “I Come From the Nigger Yard” (poem) Walcott, “A Far Cry From Africa” (poem) Louise Bennett, “Back to Africa” (poem) Chalkdust, “They ent see Africa at all” (song) Bob Marley, “Africa Unite” (song) WINTER READING WEEK FEBRUARY 16-22 Week 07. February 27India, Mixed Identities and PluralismFilm: Coolie, Pink and Green Novel: Cereus Blooms at Night V.S. Naipaul, “A Resting Place for the Imagination” John La Guerre, “Issues Facing the East Indian Community” Rhoda Reddock, “‘Douglarisation’ and the Politics of Gender Relations in Contemporary Trinidad and Tobago” Dougla, “Split me in two” (song) Brother Marvin, “Jahaji Bhai” Tony Wong, “Untitled” (autobiography) Week 08. March 06Religion, Festivals and Art Film: Community Celebration Novel: Cereus Blooms at Night Leslie Desmangles, Stephen Glazier & Joseph Murphy “Religion in the Caribbean” Veerle Poupeye, “Popular Religion, the Festival Arts and the Visionary”
Film: The Darker Side of Black Novel: Cereus Blooms at Night Patricia Mohammed, “The ‘Creolization’ of Indian Women in Trinidad and Tobago” Cecil Gutzmore, “Casting the First Stone: Policing of Homo/Sexuality in Jamaican Popular Culture” Edwidge Danticat, “Night Women” (short story) Rajandaye Ramkisson-Chen, “When the Hindu Woman Sings Calypso” (poem) Week 10. March 20 RESEARCH ESSAY DUE Negotiating Gender in Popular Culture Feature Film: Dance Hall Queen Sonjah Niah & Donna Hope “Canvasses of Representation: Stuart Hall, the Body and Dancehall Performance” Natasha Barnes, “Body Talk: Notes on Women and Spectacle in Contemporary Trinidad Carnival”
Film: Jane Finch Again Elizabeth Thomas-Hope, “Globalization and the Development of a Caribbean Migration Culture”
Annemarie Gallaugher, “Constructing Caribbean Culture in Toronto” Dionne Brand, “Going Home” (short story) Austin Clarke, “The Discipline” (short story) Louise Bennett, “Colonization in Reverse” (poem) Week 12. April 03 Review Directory: domino -> html -> outlines -> crsoutlines.nsf -> webdisplay-courseoutlines webdisplay-courseoutlines -> Course Outline as/huma 2650 0A webdisplay-courseoutlines -> Business in the Canadian Context-adms 1010 Calendar Description webdisplay-courseoutlines -> Business in the Canadian Context-adms 1010 Calendar Description webdisplay-courseoutlines -> Business in the Canadian Context-adms 1010 Calendar Description Download 46.33 Kb. Share with your friends:
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