Description
LIT 306 - Literature of Hawai'i & the Pacific Islands - This course explores the themes of the literature of Hawai’i and the Pacific of the 20th and 21st centuries. Focus is on works that give primacy to the peoples of “New Oceania” and their reclamation of their identities. The works of the genre often explore the canons of their colonizers and are reinventions of these texts to better reflect local realities. Students will engage in close readings of the writings of Hawai’i and the Pacific and will learn to more fully express their own critiques of the contexts in which these writings were produced and of the writings themselves. Prerequisite: ENG 102 “C-” or better