Course Catalog - 2024-2025

     

AAAS 413 - BLACK VENUS/VÉNUS NOIRE

Long Title: BLACK VENUS/VÉNUS NOIRE: REPRESENTATIONS OF BLACK WOMEN IN THE LONG 19TH CENTURY
Department: African & African Amer Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Language of Instruction:Taught in French
Course Type: Seminar
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. Effective May 15, 2019, this course does not carry D1 credit. Taught in French. Cross-list: FREN 413. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Completion of one 300-level course or permission of instructor.