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Johns Hopkins University | AS.211.616

Caribbean Fiction: Race, History, & Exoticism

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The Caribbean is often described as enigmatic, uncommon and supernatural. While foreigners assume that the Caribbean is exotic, this course will explore this assumption from a Caribbean perspective. We will examine the links between Caribbean and Old World imagination, the relationship between exoticism and Caribbean notions of superstition, and the way in which the Caribbean fictional universe derives from a variety of cultural myths. The course will be taught in English and all required texts are in English and English translations from French. A weekly session in French will be held for undergraduates wishing to count the course towards the French major and for interested graduate students. Open to all grad students and to undergraduates with permission of the instructor."

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