Caribbean Evaluation

Write a 5-7 page research paper or creative essay that analyzes or is inspired by a specific Caribbean literary text and related performance practice. Providing relevant historical context, look through a specific theoretical lens in order to analyze a Caribbean text as performance OR produce an original creative work that exhibits characteristics of Caribbean performance.

· Essay situates text in the context of a specific event or trend in Caribbean or Caribbean diasporic history.

· Essay identifies, explains, and applies a specific theoretical lens to analysis of the Caribbean text.

· Essay engages with text through close reading, identifying specific passages and interpreting figures of speech – or makes creative use of figures of speech and rich detail.