RLFR 309
Contemporary Short Stories from North Africa: Fast Cars, Movies, Money, Love and War Fall 2012
Division I
Cross-listed AFR 307
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Today the countries of North Africa are experiencing rapid social change. Rap music can be heard spilling out of windows while television sets broadcast a call to prayer. In the market place, those selling their goods compete to be heard over the ringing of cell-phones. Old and new exist side by side, albeit sometimes very uncomfortably. During the past decade, literature has emerged in both French and Arabic examining the effects of globalization: unequal modernization, unemployment, cultural change and cultural resistance. In this course, we will read short stories that address these issues as well as analyze films, sociological texts and Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian newspapers on the web in order to explore contemporary transformations of life in North Africa. Readings by Maissa Bey, Abdelfattah Kilito, Zeina Tabi, Mohamed Zafzaf, Ahmed Bouzfour, Soumaya Zahy and Abdelhak Serhane among others.Conducted in French.
The Class: Format: lecture/discussion
Limit: 20
Expected: 20
Class#: 1824
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: active class participation, reading journal, two short papers, an oral presentation and a final paper
Prerequisites: French 201, 202 or 203 or permission of instructor
Enrollment Preferences: French majors and those with compelling justification for admission
Distributions: Division I
Notes: meets Division 1 requirement if registration is under RLFR; meets Division 2 requirement if registration is under AFR
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
RLFR 309 Division I AFR 307 Division II
Attributes: ARAB Arabic Studies Electives

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