| This course will examine English-language fiction and poetry by leading authors from the West Indies, most of whom are now resident elsewhere. With the help of historians and literary/cultural theorists, we will consider how West Indian literature has imaginatively responded to a history of slavery, indenture, and colonialism; how the region’s rich linguistic inheritance is reflected in the languages of literary texts; and how the post-war phenomenon of migration has affected individual and collective West Indian identities. |
