Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: POETICS AND POLITICS OF FRANCOPHONIE

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 AND FREN 312 or placement test or permission of instructor

Description: The seminar focuses on various literary, artistic, and political expressions of "francophonie" as both legitimated and contested concept. It encompasses a plurality of geo-cultural areas: sub-Saharan Africa, the Maghreb, and the Caribbean, and Quebec. It also examines how notions of postcolonialism and transnationalism intersect discourses of postmodernity. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: FREN 474. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 574 if student has credit for FREN 474.