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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Spring 2023 |
Registration ID | FRENB312001 |
Course Title | Advanced Topics in Literature-La Francophonie Queer |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Comparative Literature |
Instructor | Crucifix,Edwige |
Times and Days | T 01:10pm-04:00pm
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Room Location | DAL212E |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1846 This is a topics course. Course content varies. Prerequisites: two 200-level courses.; Current topic description: Amid public unrest and political debate, same-sex marriage was finally legalized in France in May 2013. In celebration of the 10-year anniversary of this landmark event, this course will travel beyond the boundaries of hexagonal France to explore queer culture and identity in the Francophone world at large. Envisioning queerness in both a global and local perspective, we will study commonalities and influences between different regions and time periods while attending to their specificities: from the lesbian scene in interwar Paris to queer fashion in contemporary Côte d’Ivoire, from homosexual tourism in colonial Morocco to the redefinition of same-sex attraction in Canada’s first nations. The course will familiarize students with seminal theoretical texts pertaining to gender and sexuality studies as well as engage with literary and cinematographic works that address queerness and LGBTQIA+ history and identity (including pieces from Colette, Condé, Dolan, Obomsawin, Sarr, Taïa, Wittig). Through analysis and discussion, we will build the new corpus of a queer Francophonie, understood both as a site of resistance and a celebration of queer culture and identity. Taught in French. Haverford: A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (A), Humanities (HU) . |
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