Two topics are offered Spring 2010. Students may take either or both for credit. Topic for Section A1: Caribbean Fiction. Modern Caribbean fiction written in English, with attention to cultural and political background. Authors such as Sam Selvon, V. S. Naipaul, Earl Lovelace, Robert Antoni (Trinidad); Wilson Harris, Pauline Melville (Guyana); Roger Mais, Olive Senior (Jamaica); Jamaica Kincaid (Antigua). Topic for Section B1: Postcolonial Theater. The emergence of a national theater movement as a feature of decolonization. “Writing back” to traditions in world-class Anglophone dramatists from Ireland (Gregory, Synge, Yeats), Trinidad (Walcott, Matura, Lovelace), Nigeria (Soyinka, Ladipo), and South Africa (Fugard and “township theater”). Also offered as CAS EN 586.