Francophone Cultures I
A.Y. 2019/2020
Learning objectives
Through a transdisciplinary approach, the course aims to give the students an extensive knowledge of the cultural practices in the main French-speaking areas. To this purpose, various media (literary texts, critical texts, images, videos) will be used to understand the cultural and transcultural dynamics set up in those areas.
Expected learning outcomes
The ability, through specific critical tools, to understand, analyse and compare different cultural phenomena, sociological dynamics of relationship, intercultural and transcultural connections. More specifically, the student should get a wider vision of the multiple diversity of contemporary society and develop possible answers to the issues that will arise during this socio-cultural research.
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Lesson period
First semester
Course syllabus
Title of the class: Francophone conceptions of the revolution: memories, fictions, myths
This class deals with the revolution in two specific countries: Haiti and Algeria. The first part will deal with Haiti: the relationship with the French Revolution, the discourses and memoires of Toussaint Louverture, the literary representaions of the revolution in Hugo, Césaire and Glissant. The second part of the class deals with the algerian revolution, and its significance for the anticolonial thought (Fanon, Kateb Yacine). The aim of the class is to show that the "francophonie" emerges out of a conflict with the French metropole.
This class deals with the revolution in two specific countries: Haiti and Algeria. The first part will deal with Haiti: the relationship with the French Revolution, the discourses and memoires of Toussaint Louverture, the literary representaions of the revolution in Hugo, Césaire and Glissant. The second part of the class deals with the algerian revolution, and its significance for the anticolonial thought (Fanon, Kateb Yacine). The aim of the class is to show that the "francophonie" emerges out of a conflict with the French metropole.
Prerequisites for admission
The prerequists are the following: capacity to analyse and understand literary texts.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Teaching Resources
First part
Title of the course: Imaginaires francophones de la révolution : mémoires, fictions, mythes
La révolution haïtienne et ses mythes
Texts to read:
1) Aimé Césaire, La tragédie du roi Christophe, Paris, Présence Africaine, 2000 (153p.)
2) Edouard Glissant, Monsieur Toussaint, Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Blanche », 1998 (168p.)
Texts to read for the non frequenting students:
Aimé Césaire, Toussaint Louverture, la révolution française et le problème colonial, Paris, Présence africaine, 2004.
Second part
L'indépendance algérienne et la pensée anticoloniale
Texts to read:
1) Frantz Fanon, Les Damnés de la terre, Paris, La Découverte, 2004 (extraits)
2) Kateb Yacine, Nedjma, Paris, Seuil, 1996
Texts to read for the non frequenting students:
1) Frantz Fanon, Les Damnés de la terre, Paris, La Découverte, 2004
2) Benjamin Stora, La Gangrène et l'oubli, Paris, La Découverte, 2005
Title of the course: Imaginaires francophones de la révolution : mémoires, fictions, mythes
La révolution haïtienne et ses mythes
Texts to read:
1) Aimé Césaire, La tragédie du roi Christophe, Paris, Présence Africaine, 2000 (153p.)
2) Edouard Glissant, Monsieur Toussaint, Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Blanche », 1998 (168p.)
Texts to read for the non frequenting students:
Aimé Césaire, Toussaint Louverture, la révolution française et le problème colonial, Paris, Présence africaine, 2004.
Second part
L'indépendance algérienne et la pensée anticoloniale
Texts to read:
1) Frantz Fanon, Les Damnés de la terre, Paris, La Découverte, 2004 (extraits)
2) Kateb Yacine, Nedjma, Paris, Seuil, 1996
Texts to read for the non frequenting students:
1) Frantz Fanon, Les Damnés de la terre, Paris, La Découverte, 2004
2) Benjamin Stora, La Gangrène et l'oubli, Paris, La Découverte, 2005
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam will be oral and will consist in a discussion in which the professor will ask the student to analyse literary texts and to make links with the course.
Teaching Unit 1
L-LIN/03 - FRENCH LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor:
Jeusette Julien
Shifts:
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Professor:
Jeusette Julien
Teaching Unit 2
L-LIN/03 - FRENCH LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professors:
Bevilacqua Elisabetta, Jeusette Julien
Shifts:
-
Professors:
Bevilacqua Elisabetta, Jeusette Julien