21L.007 World Literatures: Contact Zone, Fall 2006
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Author(s)
Braithwaite, Alisa Kim
Alternative Title
World Literatures: Contact Zone
Date Issued
December 2006
Abstract
World Literatures will focus on the concept of the contact zone. What happens when cultures with different ideologies and norms come into contact with each other through exploration and colonization? We will examine how the complex issues surrounding race, gender, language and power are represented in both poetry and prose from African, Caribbean and South Asian perspectives. Our discussions will focus on not only the historical situations that these texts represent, but also the literary conventions these writers use to express these unique stories.
Subjects
contact zone
exploration
colonization
race
gender
language
power
poetry
prose
Africa
Caribbean
South Asia
literary conventions
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Literature Section
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