Explores how certain African American visual artist and dramatists interpret historical experience. Raises theoretical questions of representation, visualization, intertexuality, interdisciplinarity, and politics and the aesthetics of portrayal, focusing on the work of Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, August Wilson, Adrienne Kennedy.
Examines the diversity of African-Canadian artistic production, literature in particular, but also film and visual art, seeking to develop theoretical and critical frameworks in which to situate contemporary work within Canadian, as well as the African Diasporic discourse.
Studies of the poetry, prose and non-fiction of Dionne Brand.
Canadian Native writers of the 19th and 20th centuries have defined themselves and their world through unique representations of their own life stories. The course explores the contexts and interpretations of "identity", "history", "literature", "tradition", and integrating different world views.
Explores the history and literature of the Metis and Louis Riel in their homelands and in their communities in North America since the 17th century. Topics will include Metis identities, family histories, communities, resistance movements, land and treaty rights.
By focusing on influential post-colonial theorists, this course examines 20th century attempts to rethink the Western humanistic tradition from the point of view of colonized and formerly colonized peoples.
This course introduces students to literature produced by black women writers in the Caribbean, Canada and the United States after the 1970s.
This course examines aesthetic and expressive aspects of Caribbean folk culture and explores how and why West Indian novelists, dramatists and poets have used this culture in their literary works.
Although the Nazi genocide targeted both men and women, writing by victims and survivors along with contemporary depictions of the Holocaust, indicates significant gender-specific differences in experience and ways of coping and remembering. Close readings and critical analyses of primary texts are emphasized.
This course focuses on issues, skills and approaches to develop a critical attitude to forms of knowledge and underlie any cultural production. The course also emphasizes strategies for reading, writing, research and analysis, as ell as situating knowledge in historical and political contexts. It pays special attention to the four streams of Power, Diaspora and […]