Archipelagic Thinking with Global Literatures

Islands and archipelagos have long been disparaged for their openness, blending, and fluidity. Around the globe today, this form of continental thinking continues to provoke nationalist policies and efforts to curb human migrations and refugee movements. This course reconsiders these ideas. In learning to think archipelagically, we will read and watch work by Edwidge Danticat, Rosario Ferré, Isaac Julien, Craig Santos Perez, Ai Weiwei and more. This will include discussing how practices of language, translation, and multilingualism are lived and theorized archipelagically.