Dec 21, 2024  
2024-2025 University Bulletin 
    
2024-2025 University Bulletin
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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. 

Listed also as SWG 290  

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102  or CRWS 102  

This course will satisfy the core area requirement in literature and multicultural studies.



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