Seminar on Comparative Studies: Haiti: Literature and Ideology

The Comparative Literature Program and the School ofLanguages, Literatures, and Cultures announce the following seminar
on Comparative Studies: Haiti: Literature and Ideology.

CMLT788E: Colloquium in Comparative Studies (1 credit, cross-listed with SLLC 698E)

The course may be taken for credit and used toward the Theory Certificate or audited and attended for individual sessions.

The overarching theme for the seminar is "historicizing theory." The texts on the syllabus address how Haiti, as a place and as an idea, has informed major philosophical, historical, and literary theories as as shadowy pretext, context, or referent.

All meeting take place from 3-5 in the Dean’s Conference Room (1102 Key Hall)

Sept. 10:   Susan Buck Morss, "Hegel and Haiti"

Oct 1:       Michel-Rolph Trouillot, "The Three Faces of Sans Souci" from
                Silencing the Past

                C.L.R. James, Black Jacobins

Oct 22:     Marie Chauvet, Amour/Love

Dec. 10:   Colin (Joan) Dayan, "Fictions of Haiti," from Haiti, History, and the Gods
               Alejo Carpentier, "Preface," The Kingdom of this World

Guest Speaker: Myriam Chancy, Professor of English, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of Cincinnati