Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Catalog - 2018-2019
FREN 413 - BLACK VENUS/VÉNUS NOIRE
Long Title: BLACK VENUS/VÉNUS NOIRE: REPRESENTATIONS OF BLACK WOMEN IN THE LONG 19TH CENTURY
Department: *Classical & European Studies*
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Language of Instruction:Taught in French
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Description: This course explores the mythology of the black woman’s body in the
French/Francophone imaginary, namely in the literary rewriting of the "primitive" in the long 19th-century. Students will examine how this eroticized body bears traces of its social, political and cultural codification and symbolizes anxieties born out of the colonial encounter. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Completion of one 300-level course.