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Sea of Lentils: Modernity, Literature and Film in the Caribbean, 2011-12 ___ LT946 Sea of Lentils: Modernity, Literature and Film in the Caribbean, 2011-12 Module tutor: Maria Cristina FumagalliContact details: 5A.122 tel: 872610 email address – mcfuma@essex.ac.uk office hours – before and after class or just email me and I will see you as soon as possible
Friday 10.00-12.00 – 5A.122 Module OutlineThis course is directed at students with no background in Caribbean literature as well as students with a previous knowledge of the subject. The aim of this course is to offer accounts of modernity that do not claim primacy for Eurocentric/ North Atlantic perspectives and preconceptions and to examine to what extent colonial and post-colonial experience shape and re-shape modernity. We will focus on literary, filmic and theoretical texts from the Spanish, Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean (students who can speak Spanish or French can read the novels in their original language but all texts are available in excellent English translation or with English subtitles). Aims, objectives, and outcomesThis module aims to foster students' critical thinking by encouraging them to approach the concept of modernity from a different perspective and to develop a “critically modern” outlook. This module will enable students to (re)examine the relationship between modernity, the Caribbean and the North Atlantic by focusing on a number of key Caribbean filmic and literary texts from different languages of the area. After successful completion of the module, students will able to display a detailed knowledge of the discourses and counterdiscourses of modernity and to rethink the European and North Atlantic paradigm from a creative and critical perspective. Student will also be familiar with Caribbean culture and history and their broader understanding of modernity will be based on their awareness of the crucial (but often neglected) interconnections between Caribbean and North Atlantic history. Learning and teachingThis module will be taught via weekly seminars of two hours. Assessment100% coursework. The coursework consists of a 5,000 word essay. Week by week schedule A more detailed week by week schedule with a list of the primary and secondary texts you will have to read/watch each week will be made available at the beginning of the course. WEEK 2 – Introduction WEEK 3 – Modernity and the Caribbean WEEK 4 - Antonio Benítez-Rojo Sea of Lentils (1985 –English translation 2000) and The Last Supper (dir Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 1976) WEEK 5 - Joseph Zobel Black Shack Alley: A Novel (1974 –English translation 1997) and Sugar Cane Alley (dir Euzhan Palcy, 1983) WEEK 6-7 - Patrick Chamoiseau Texaco: A Novel (1992 –English translation 1997) WEEK 8 - Edwige Danticat The Farming of Bones (1998) WEEK 9-10 Derek Walcott Omeros (1990) WEEK 11 -The Agronomist (dir Jonathan Demme, 2004) and Suite Habana (dir Fernando Pérez, 2003) Primary reading list (to include): Antonio Benítez-Rojo Sea of Lentils Derek Walcott Omeros Patrick Chamoiseau Texaco: A Novel Joseph Zobel Black Shack Alley: A Novel Sugar Cane Alley (dir Euzhan Palcy, 1983) Edwige Danticat The Farming of Bones The Agronomist (dir Jonathan Demme, 2004) Suite Habana (dir Fernando Pérez, 2003) The Last Supper (dir Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 1976) Secondary reading list NB - A list of the secondary texts which you will have to read each week alongside the primary texts will be made available at the beginning of the course. The following texts are to be taken simply as an indication: please refer to the library and LION for more. Aub-Buscher G. and Ormerod Noakes B The Francophone Caribbean Today: Literature, Language, Culture (The University of the West Indies Press, 2003) Balutansky, Kathleen and Sourieau, Marie-Agnes (eds), Caribbean Creolization: Reflections on the Cultural Dynamics of Language, Literature and Identity (Florida U.P. / West Indies U.P., 1998) Benítez-Rojo, Antonio Sea of Lentils (University of Massachusetts Press, 1990); El Mar de las lentejas (Editorial Casiopea, 1979)
Berman Marshall, All That is Solid Melts into Air: the Experience of Modernity (Verso, 1982) Bernabé, Jean, Chamoiseau, Patrick, Confiant, Raphaël Éloge de la Créolite/ In Praise of Creolness (édition bilingue, Gallimard 1990) Bongie, Chris, Islands and Exiles: the Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature (Stanford University Press, 1998) Buck-Morss, Susan Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009) Chamoiseau, Patrick Texaco (Vintage, 1998); Texaco (Folio 1992) Danticat, Edwige The Farming of Bones (Soho Press, 1998) Dash, Michael The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context (University Press of Virginia 1998) de Certeau, Michel L’écriture de l’histoire (Gallimard, 1975) / The Writing of History (Columbia UP,1988). -- -- -- --, Heterologies: Discourse on the Other trans. by Brian Massumi (Minnesota UP, 1986) . Fischer, Sybille Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (Duke U.P. 2004) Fumagalli, Maria Cristina Returning Medusa's Gaze: Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity (University of Virginia Press, 2009) Gilroy, Paul The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (Verso, 1993) Glissant, Édouard Poetics of Relation (University of Michigan Press, 1997) -- -- -- --, Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays (University Press of Virginia, 1989) Harris, Wilson The Unfinished Genesis of the Imagination: Selected Essays (Routledge, 1999) Hulme, Peter Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean 1492-1797 (Routledge, 1986) James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins (1938, Allison&Busby 1994) Jameson, Frederic A Singular Modernity: Essays on the Ontology of the Present (London: Verso, 2002) Knauft, Bruce Critically Modern: Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies (Indiana U.P. 2002) Latour, Bruno We Have Never Been Modern (Harvard UP, 1991) Matibag, Eugenio Haitian-Dominican Counterpoint: Nation, State And Race In Hispaniola (Palgrave - Macmillan, 2003) Michael, Martin New Latin American Cinema: Studies of National Cinemas (vol. 2) Wayne State U.P. 1997) Nichols, Grace i is a long memoried woman, (Karnak House, 1983) -- -- -- --, Fat Black Woman’s Poem (Virago, 1985). Rabasa, José Inventing A-M-E-R-I-C-A: Spanish Historiography and the Formation of Eurocentrism (University of Oklahoma Press, 1993) Puri, Shalini, ed. Marginal Migrations: The Circulation of Cultures within the Caribbean (Macmillan Education [Warwick University Caribbean Series], 2003) Sheller, Mimi Consuming the Caribbean (Routledge, 2003) Sterne, Jonathan The Audible Past (Duke, 2003) Thomas, Clive The Poor and the Powerless: Economic Policy and Change in the Caribbean (Latin America Bureau, 1988) Todorov, Tzvetan The Conquest of America: the Question of the Other (University of Oklahoma Press, 1984) Trouillot, Michel-Rolph Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (Beacon Press, 1995) Walcott, Derek Omeros (Faber, 1990) -- -- -- --, What the Twilight Says: Essays (Faber, 1998) Warner, Marina Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds (Oxford UP, 2002) Wucker, Michele, Why the Cocks Fight; Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispanola (Hill & Wang, 1999). Zobel, Joseph La Rue Cases-Nègres (Présence Africaine, 1974); Black Shack Alley (Lynne Rienner, 1997). Download 21.23 Kb. Share with your friends:
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