Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: LITERATURE, ART AND COLONIALITY

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: The course focuses on the concepts of coloniality, exoticism, and abstraction. It examines the "Orientalist" tradition in works by Delacroix, Chasseriau, Matisse, and Assia Djebar; exoticism according to Gauguin, Segalen, and Khatibi; the postcolonial baroque in artifacts by Simon, Boudjedra, and Glissant; abstraction in Borduas, Atlan, and Khadda's paintings. A reduced reading list to undergraduates. Cross-list: HART 487, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: FREN 587. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 487 if student has credit for FREN 587.