Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: POETICS AND POLITICS OF FRANCOPHONIE

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 OR FREN 312 or permission of instructor

Description: This seminar focuses on various literary, artistic, and political expressions of "francohonie" 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. Undergraduate version of FREN 574 with shorter reading list and research paper. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: FREN 574. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 474 if student has credit for FREN 574.