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CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

The intensive study of a selection of literary works in English, mainly from regions other than Canada, Britain and the United States. The course may focus on one or several literatures or individual authors, and will be organized according to specific critical methodologies. The course may be repeated for credit if a different topic is taught though students who obtained credit for ENGL 492W prior to Summer 2015 may not take this course for further credit. Students with credit for ENGL 492 may not take this course for further credit. Writing.

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Ink: Pacific Islands Art, Moko, Fiction, and Poetry

 

This course in Pacific Studies examines art as a versatile means of cultural expression and production in the Pacific Islands, in the paintings of French artist Paul Gauguin, the sculptures, carvings, and paintings of Polynesia and Micronesia, the moko art of Aotearoa, and the prose fiction and poems of Samoa, Aotearoa, the Cook Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Fiji, Hawai’i, the Solomon Islands, Tahiti, Easter Island, the Marquesas Islands, Vanuatu, Niue, the Tuamotus, and Wallis and Futuna. The lecture themes are: 1) the diversity of artistic cultures and production in the Pacific Islands; 2) independent and developing literatures as informed by local oral and cultural traditions and subversive of lingering imperialist systems, including the Commonwealth; 3) conditions of insularity, marginality, ethnicity, and pacificity; 4) issues of post-colonialism, tourism, and globalization; 5) contiguities of oral, print, and sensual cultures; 6) ink, colour, and texture as media of representation and abstraction; and 7) making art both with and on the body.

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