AFR 204
Introduction to Francophone Studies Fall 2013
Division II Exploring Diversity Initiative
Cross-listed RLFR 203
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The Francophone world, stretching across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the Caribbean and the Americas, has often been described as a family joined by a shared language and condition born of colonial history. Through fiction and film, this course will examine what it means to be Francophone, and how writers and filmmakers from the Francophone world have approached the idea of family both literally and metaphorically in order to explore questions of identity, origins, colonialism, resistance, nationhood and interconnectedness in a global community. This course invites students to enter into critical engagement with cultural constructions of difference, colonial and post-colonial constructions of subjectivity, culturally contested imaginations and treatment of gender and race, and the very idea of the Francophone itself. Authors we will read include: Driss Chraibi (Morocco), Dany Laferrière (Haiti), Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe), Aimé Césaire (Martinique), Linda Lê (Vietnam) and Fatou Diome (Senegal). Films studied include Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembène), La vie sur terre (Abderrahman Sissoko) and Abouna (Mahamet-Saleh Haroun). Conducted in French.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 20
Expected: 20
Class#: 1819
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: active class participation, informal response papers, two short papers, and final paper
Prerequisites: RLFR 105 or above or results of the College Placement Examination, or permission of instructor
Enrollment Preferences: French majors or certificate candidates, and Africana Studies concentrators
Distributions: Division II Exploring Diversity Initiative
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 203 Division I AFR 204 Division II
Attributes: INST African Studies Electives
INST Borders, Exiles + Diaspora Studies Electives

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