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Skip to contentDepartment of EnglishMenu Close Search Undergraduate ProgramMFA in Creative WritingPhD in English & American LiteratureResearchStudent ResourcesOur PeopleLet your curiosity lead the way:Apply TodayHomeCoursesUpcoming EventsRecent NewsThe SpectacleContact Us Arts & Sciences Graduate Studies in A&S Topics in AMCS ENGLISH LITERATURE 330A Blue Skies. Clear Waters. Sun. Sand. Paradise. Yet, as Derek Walcott has said, "the Caribbean is not an idyll, not to its natives." This paradisical Caribbean then is hardly less of a reality and more of a construction. How, then, did these simple and reductive depictions come about? When were they created? And why are they problematic? In this course, we explore the creation and persistent representation of the Caribbean as a utopic place. We will examine texts like Shakespeare's The Tempest and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, and watch clips from the Pirates of the Caribbean films to examine how the Caribbean was created in Western imagination. Against these representations, we will read the works of important Caribbean authors like Jamaica Kincaid, V.S Naipaul, Caryl Philips, Derek Walcott, Eric Walrond, and Claude McKay, and discuss how these authors have imagined and inscribed the Caribbean in their own vision as a contradictory, less-than-ideal place. Course Attributes: EN H; BU Hum; AS HUM; FA HUM; AR HUM Section 01Topics in AMCS INSTRUCTOR: PayneM-W---- 04:00 PM | TBA View Course Listing - FL2023 View Course Listing - FL2024 Quick LinksNewsEventsOur PeopleFaculty BookshelfDepartment AwardsResourcesContactAdditional information Arts & Sciences Graduate Studies in A&SCopyright 2024 by:Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. LouisFollow Us Facebook Twitter Contact Us: Department of English [email protected] Visit the main Washington University in St. Louis website1 Brookings Drive / St. Louis, MO 63130 / wustl.edu