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Apr 19, 2024
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FREN 290 - Women Write Women: Africa and the Caribbean 3 Credit Hours
How do French-speaking African and Caribbean women writers examine and expose their respective cultures and societies in their writing? How do we identify the so-called feminine point of view? Through close readings of Mariama Bâ, Maryse Condé, Fatou Diome, Assia Djebar, Aminata Sow Fall, Werewere Liking and Calixthe Beyala we will discuss how these women illustrate, confront, and negotiate patriarchy, tradition, exile, and migration, and how they resist limiting womanhood to marriage, motherhood, or outcast. Two films (in French with English subtitles) will complement English translations of the above readings.
* Taught in English.
This course can count toward the major or minor if the student completes the 1-credit intensification in French.
Listed also as SWG 290
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in literature and multicultural studies.
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