FREN 339: Francophone Lit and Civil

Course Description

An introduction to twentieth-century award-winning texts from the Caribbean, Canada, North Africa and West Africa. Students will analyze the strategies through which these powerful, dramatic, post-colonial writers address such issues and themes of universal relevance as love and the search for identity, while also expressing the experience and culture realities of his or her own country. Representative authors include Birago Diop, Simone Schwartz-Bart, Arlette Coustre, Anne Hebert, Roch Carrier, Michel Tremblay, and Tehar Ben Jelloun. This course is a Project Based Learning centered on a major project and/or on a research question related to the topic of the class and will imply hands-on work for a good portion of the semester. The project can be local or international community-driven and will connect to real-life experiences. (OC).