FREN 197 - Special Topics

Institution:

Santa Clara University

Subject:

French & Francophone Studies

Description:

TOPIC: CULTURES OF EMIGRATION--Over the last two decades, while the political scene in France has been mostly dominated by increasingly inflamed debates about the presence of immigrants, the literary scene has witnessed the emergence of a growing number of literary and filmic productions by individuals living outside the bounds of mainstream society. As French citizens but born to immigrant parents, they inhabit the geographical and conceptual periphery of the modern French nation. In this course, we will examine this body of texts and films as they relate to the development of a post-colonial space in contemporary French society and literature. We will trace its evolution and variations since the 1980s and we will explore how these writers and filmmakers elaborate new modes and spaces of representation that reveal and displace socio-political as well as cultural mechanisms of domination and silencing. We will also examine how these new literary and cinematic discourses negotiate between the personal and the political, the social and the individual, the national and the postcolonial, the local and the global. Prerequisite: FREN 101 or equivalent.

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5.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.scu.edu

Phone Number:

(408) 554-4000

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Quarter

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