FR 337 - Topics in Francophone Literature

Institution:

William Paterson University of New Jersey

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Description:

Introduces major poets, novelists, and dramatists of the French-speaking world, including study of their literary, critical, and political works. Focus varies. Topics might include the following: the different literary movements of the Caribbean and its main twentieth-century writers, such as Césaire, Condé, Glissant; contemporary Québeculture and literature, its historical and artistic considerations, political concerns, and relations to language through the works of such writers as Broussard, Micone, Roy, and Théoret; major writers in French from Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria, such as Ben Jelloun, Boudjedra, Djebar, Mimouni, Yacine, including additional consideration of Beur writers in France; the major writers and literary movements in French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa within a historical and sociological context, considering work by Ba, Beyala, Kourouma, Laye, Ousmane, or Senghor. Prerequisites: FR 200 and FR 250

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wpunj.edu

Phone Number:

(973) 720-2000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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