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3.00 Credits
This course explores a century of enormous political, socio-economic, and cultural change through its literature. Students consider such authors as Sta l, Nodier, Balzac, Hugo, Sand, Flaubert, Baudelaire, and Zola. Prerequisite(s): French 240, 250, or 251. Not open to students who have received credit for French 354. [W2] M. Rice-DeFosse.
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From Proust's quest at the beginning of the twentieth century to Nothomb's haunting fictions one century later, from Apollinaire's ideograms and vision of Paris to Bon's poetry of place, from Delbo's autobiographical account of the Holocaust to Perec's W ou le souvenir d'enfance, from La Vagabonde by Colette to Irigaray's Ce sexe qui n'en est pas un, contemporary French literature has been in constant dialogue with a century marked by social change, redefinition of gender, trauma, urban modernity, and mobility. This course explores how contemporary literature shaped the perceptions of such issues and examines its contribution by understanding its authors in their social and political context. Prerequisite(s): French 240, 250, or 251. Not open to students who have received credit for French 355. A. Dauge-Roth.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores gender and voice in selected literary, political, and theoretical texts by French women from 1789 to the present. Through a study of writers such as Gouges, Sand, Tristan, Colette, Beauvoir, Duras, Condé, Cixous, and Irigaray, students explore the contributions of French women writers to women's writing, feminist theory, and questions of gender in social context. Prerequisite(s): French 240, 250, or 251. Not open to students who have received credit for French 365A. M. Rice-DeFosse.
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3.00 Credits
e. This course studies the colonial, postcolonial, and immigrant experience of North Africans as portrayed in Francophone literature. Readings include narratives and journals from the beginning of the colonial period in Algeria (1830), as well as the contemporary novels and discourse of feminists such as Assia Djebar, Malika Mokkadem, and Le la Sebbar. Gender is often highlighted as a category of analysis. Prerequisite(s): French 240, 250, or 251. Not open to students who have received credit for French 365D. Instructor permission is required. K. Read.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of literary voices from the French-speaking Caribbean from the first half of the twentieth century to the contemporary period, including works by authors such as Aimé Césaire, René Depestre, Edouard Glissant, Marie Chauvet, Maryse Condé, Gisèle Pineau, and Patrick Chamoiseau. The course explores topics such representations of colonial past and slavery, the Négr itude movement, issues of political and social justice, hybridity , and cré olité. Prerequisite(s): French 240, 250, or 251. Not open to students who have received credit for French 365G. M. Rice-DeF
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3.00 Credits
This course presents a historical and rhetorical examination of various media and genres that bear witness to the Rwandan genocide of 1994 and a questioning of the ability to document genocide in Africa through Western modes of representation and information. Students analyze literary works written by Francophone sub-Saharan African writers such as Koulsy Lamko (Chad) and Boubacar Boris Diop (Senegal), the play Rwanda 94, written testimonies by Tutsi and Hutu survivors such as Yolande Mukagasana and Annick Kayitezi and those of foreign journalists present during or after the genocide such as Jean Hatzfeld, fictional films by Raoul Peck and Terry George, and numerous documentaries. Prerequisite(s): French 240, 250, or 251. Not open to students who have received credit for French 365H. Enrollment limited to 20. [W2] A. Dauge-Roth.
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3.00 Credits
Open only to senior majors, with departmental permission. Before registering for 457 or 458 a student must present to the department chair an acceptable plan, including an outline and a tentative bibliography, after discussion with a member of the department. Students register for French 457 in the fall semester or for French 458 in the winter semester. Senior majors register for 457 or 458 only, unless the department gives permission for a second semester's credit because the nature of the project warrants it. Majors writing an honors thesis register for both French 457 and 458. Normally offered every year. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
Open only to senior majors, with departmental permission. Before registering for 457 or 458 a student must present to the department chair an acceptable plan, including an outline and a tentative bibliography, after discussion with a member of the department. Students register for French 457 in the fall semester or for French 458 in the winter semester. Senior majors register for 457 or 458 only, unless the department gives permission for a second semester's credit because the nature of the project warrants it. Majors writing an honors thesis register for both French 457 and 458. Normally offered every year. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
Open only to senior majors, with departmental permission. Before registering for 457 or 458 a student must present to the department chair an acceptable plan, including an outline and a tentative bibliography, after discussion with a member of the department. Students register for French 457 in the fall semester or for French 458 in the winter semester. Senior majors register for 457 or 458 only, unless the department gives permission for a second semester's credit because the nature of the project warrants it. Majors writing an honors thesis register for both French 457 and 458. Normally offered every year. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
What kind of unique knowledge does a documentary film seek to offer What are the strengths and the limits of this genre in our increasingly visual culture Does the documentary impulse bring us closer to the "reality" of which it takes the pulse Does it force us to face the existential and political practices it makes socially visible How do documentary films, in comparison with historical fiction or novels, position their viewers and call for social engagment Moreover, to what extent are documentary films able to renew our vision of postcolonial history and national memory This course examines these issues through the works of several French and Francophone documentary filmmakers. Recommended background: French 201. A. Dauge-Roth.
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