SHAKESPEARE IN THE CARIBBEAN: POST/COLONIAL READINGS

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Upper-Level

This course examines English translations of Caribbean and Latin American writers' retellings of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Students will explore the construction of identity (including race and gender) and otherness since the beginning of the colonial project (1492). We will question the relationship between colonized and colonizer, and tropes such as the Master/Slave relationship. Taught in English.