COML 3042

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COML 3042
Tragedy and Colonial Rupture: On the Question of Irremediable Pasts

Course information provided by the 2021-2022 Catalog.

This course will examine tragedy in the context of colonialism in the Caribbean and Africa, both as an important genre of anticolonial and decolonial writing and as a frame for inquiring into the consequences of historical rupture and the remediability or irremediability of the colonial past.  Authors may include (in chronological order) Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Shakespeare, Nietzsche, CLR James, Aimé Césaire, Wole Soyinka, Ousmane Sembene, Derek Walcott, David Scott, Raoul Peck, Edwidge Danticat, Toni Morrison.


Distribution Category (LA-AS, ALC-AS)

When Offered Fall.

Breadth Requirement (HB)

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18629 COML 3042   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person