printer friendly pageFRENCH 316: Understanding and Staging Molière Theatre (TAPS 368S)
Devoted to an in depth analysis of Molière's major plays, as well as a study of contemporary productions of his work. Taught in French.
FRENCH 320: The Posthumanistic Subject
The course will examine the need to rethink the traditional western idea of the strong subject. Through close readings of works by Agamben, Braidotti, Derrida, Deleuze, Hall, Haraway, Latour, Wolfe, among others, this course will explore posthumanist theories of individual and collective subjectivity that challenge traditional ways of defining the human and the non-human subject/person and promote fundamental reconsideration of issues such as agency, autonomy, essence, freedom, dignity, otherness, substance, personhood, sociality, and life itself. The course would consider, how we can empower the subject and community in order to develop a desired model of participatory democracy. Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor
FRENCH 327: Genres of the Novel (COMPLIT 327)
Provides students with an overview of major genres in the history of the modern novel. Novels might include works by Cervantes, Defoe, Lafayette, Radcliffe, Goethe, Balzac, Woolf, and Marquez, coupled with theory by Lukacs, Bahktin, Jameson and Barthes.
FRENCH 350: Season and Off-Season of North-African Cinema and Literature (FRENCH 150)
This course explores the emergence of Francophone cinema and literature from North Africa (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco) in the post-independence era: aesthetics, language metissage and hybridization, ethnic interactions, gender relations, collective imagination and collective memory, nationalism, popular culture, religion, urbanism, post-colonialism, migration, and the Arab Spring will be covered. Special attention will be given to Moroccan cinema, and to the notions of francophone/maghrebi/"beur"/diasporic cinema and literature. Readings from Franz Fanon, Albert Memmi, Kateb Yacine, Albert Camus, Reda Bensmaia, Assia Djebar, Colette Fellous, Abdelkebir Khatibi, Michel de Certeau, Benjamin Stora, Lucette Valensi, Abdelwahab Meddeb. Movies include Viva Laldjérie, Rome plutot que vous, Les Sabots en or, Les Silence des Palais, Halfaouine, Satin Rouge, Le Chant des Mariées, and Mort à Vendre. Taught in French. Films in French and Arabic with English subtitles.
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