LITR 5734: Cross-Cultural Texts in Dialogue

for graduate students in Literature & Cross-Cultural Studies

University of Houston-Clear Lake, Fall 1998

Classical texts of European colonization

are read in dialogue with

African, Asian, and Caribbean texts

of liberation and the postcolonial experience.

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AFRICA & Others

William Shakespeare’s The Tempest (1611)

in dialogue with

Aime Cesaire’s A Tempest (1975)

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1902)

in dialogue with

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958)

and

Buchi Emecheta’s The Rape of Shavi (1983)

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INDIA

E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924)

in dialogue with

Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981)

and

Andhurati Roy’s The God of Small Things (1997)

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The CARIBBEAN

Daniel Defoe’s Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719)

in dialogue with

Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy (1990)

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