English 287 - Spring, 2024

Topic: Climate Ideologies

 

Class Information

Instructor: Banful, Akua
CRN: 56639
Time: R 3:10-6:00pm
Location: 120 Voorhies
 

Description

This course examines the cultural and ideological dimensions of ?climate? through the literary and cultural productions of nineteenth and twentieth-century tropical societies during and after empire. Our explorations will make landfall in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, interrogating how ideologies of racial capital, socialism, and aesthetics mobilize ideas of climate and the environment in the process of worldmaking.