FREN 3660

Looking Back: The Poetics of Remembrance in the Francophone Imaginary

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2019-2020 Catalog.

This course focuses on after life, survival, death, memory narratives, liminal spaces, memorial traces and indigenous memory, by writers and visual artists from the Francophone world presented through the history of colonization, the slave trade, the decolonization movements and Postcolonialism in several areas such as the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, Quebec and Lebanon. The diversity of Francophone cultures and voices will be mostly explored around issues of trauma, remembrance and forgetting, anamnesis and creolization of memory.

Language Requirement Satisfies Option 1.

Distribution Category (CA-AS)

When Offered Spring.

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