Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES IN AND OUT OF FRANCE ***** A proseminar, the course will study the various modes of negotiation and construction of identity at work in selected francophone works (literature, essay, film, painting). The seminar will include selected essays by Borduas, Fanon, Memmi, Soyinka, and Khatibi, as well as literature, films, and painting from Kane, Kourouma, and Labou Tansi (Sub-Sahara), Conde (Carribean), Issiakhem, Cherkaoui, Mimouni, and Djebar, (Maghreb), Bouraoui (France), Jutra, Aquin, Blais, and Hebert (Quebec). The course is open to non-French majors, although a reading knowledge of French is recommended since not all reading selections may be available in translation.