Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: LITERATURE, ART AND COLONIALITY

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: How do concepts like coloniality, exoticism, primitivism, the modern baroque apply to texts and artifacts produced at the crossroads of (post)colonial and transnational encounters? Focus on Orientalists, Matisse, Djebar, Simon, Boudjedra, Borduas, Atlan, Khadda, and Glissant. Taught in English. Choice of reading materials and assignments in either English or French. Cross-list: HART 587, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: FREN 487. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 587 if student has credit for FREN 487.