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13 results for "Caribbean"

13 results for "Caribbean"

Archival Fictions: Telling the Time of Futures Past

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SPEAKER: Kaiama L. Glover, Yale University Professor Kaiama L. Glover will discuss René Depestre’s late novel Popa Singer (2016), a daring work that revisits Haiti’s Duvalier dictatorship, Caribbean revolutionary dreams, and the afterlives of political...

Françoise Lionnet

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Research Interests: Indian Ocean literary, cultural, and historical studies in relation to Atlantic and Caribbean Studies, colonialism, focus on 18th to 21st century writers.

The Dialectic of Universal Emancipation

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This talk will examine the dialectic of universal emancipation and the radical enlightenment, to argue that while these processes were arguably initiated in the Malian Mande Charter of 1222, demonstrated more geometrico in Spinoza’s Ethics of 1677, and...

Usha Rungoo

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Research and teaching interests: Caribbean, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean Literatures; material and embodied histories; the use of autoethnography, fiction and imagination in rewriting colonized identities, cartographies and histories; extractive...

FRENCH 160 - The Laboratory Island

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Islands, because of their size, boundedness by the sea and supposed isolation, have served and continue to serve as laboratories for experiments including military, nuclear, touristic, scientific and ecological ones, as well as for forms of forced labor...

FRENCH 218 - Plantations, Gardens, Forests: De/Colonial Ecologies

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In this course, we will explore the imbrication of colonialism and environmentalism by focusing on “green” spaces such as plantations; botanical gardens where plants were studied to be mass produced for empire’s profit; and green spaces such as safaris...