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Contesting Frenchness: Francophone Literatures
Course code: FREN2110.
Course unit value: 0.5.
This optional course aims to introduce a selection of texts from twentieth-century
Francophone literature, examining the formal and aesthetic preoccupations of Francophone writings politically contesting Frenchness. This course also explores the engagement of Francophone writers with a range of topics such as alienation, identity, tradition, modernity, colonialism, ethnicity, sexuality, language, bilingualism and biculturalism.
Assessment: one unseen two-hour written examination (100%).
Tutor: Dr A Haddour.
Preparatory reading and set texts:
- L. S. Senghor, Anthologie de la nouvelle poésie nègre et malgache.
- J-P Sartre, Orphée noir (Broché, 2005).
- Aimé Césaire, Une Tempête (Broché, 1997).
- Discours sur le colonialisme (Broché, 2000).
- Tahar Ben Jelloun, L’Enfant de sable (Poche, 1995).
- Frantz Fanon, Peau noire, masques blancs (Poche, 1971).
- Leïla Sebbar, Une enfance algérienne (Poche, 1999).
