Fictions of the Indian Ocean

Undergraduate / Graduate

This course will explore contemporary fiction, film, music and theory emerging from the Indian Ocean world - its oceans, its archipelagoes, and its bordering regions. Examples of potential texts include La mémoire délavée (2023) by Nathacha Appanah, Le Silence des Chagos (2005) by Shenaz Patel and The Dragonfly Sea (2020) by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor. We will be in conversation with decolonial theory, the environmental humanities, critical race and caste studies, and gender studies, among others.