All Ah We: Contemporary Afro-Caribbean Drama & Performance
ENGL 233
Fall 2026
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01
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| Crosslisting:
AFAM 233, THEA 233, CHUM 233 |
What are the dramatic utterances of Afro-Caribbean artists? How do Afro-Caribbean playwrights and other narrative-based performance artists present "Caribbean" and/or "West Indian" subjectivities in ways that are shared, yet critically different? In what ways are Afro-Caribbean dramas and performance pieces repositories for the practical, the theoretical, the sociological, the political, the imagined, and the lost? In answering these questions and more, we examine these textual and embodied expressions from the complicated crossroads of class, creolization, diaspora, ethnicity, folklore, gender, history, indentured servitude, isolation, language, race, religion, and slavery. At all times, this course revels in the polyphony that is Afro-Caribbean drama and performance. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Playwrights, Plays, and Memoir include:
Kwame Kwei Armah, ELMINA'S KITCHEN (Grenada, UK); Nilo Cruz, TWO SISTERS AND A PIANO; Natasha Gordon, NINE NIGHT (Jamaica, UK); debbie tucker green, BORN BAD (Jamaica, UK); debbie tucker green, TRADE (Jamaica, UK); Quiara Alegría Hudes, ELLIOT: A SOLDIER'S FUGUE (Puerto Rico, US); Quiara Alegría Hudes, THE HAPPIEST SONG PLAYS LAST (Puerto Rico, US); Quiara Alegría Hudes, WATER BY THE SPOONFUL (Puerto Rico, US); Quiara Alegría Hudes, MY BROKEN LANGUAGE (Puerto Rico, US); Lynn Nottage, INTIMATE APPAREL (US); Winsome Pinnock, LEAVE TAKING (Jamaica, UK); Dennis Scott, AN ECHO IN THE BONE (Jamaica); Sistren Theatre Collective, QPH (Jamaica)
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Examinations and Assignments:
Discussion Posts, Short Analytical Statement, Memoir Reflection Journal Blog, Group Staged Reading, Final Essay |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Contributes to fulfillment of ENGL major requirements: Lit Hist. 3, World Lit., elective. |
| Instructor(s): McMahon,Rashida Times: .M..... 01:20PM-04:10PM; Location: TBA |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 2 | JR major: 5 | | |
| Seats Available: 15 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 3 | FR: X |
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