FRNCH-417 Politics of Language in the Francophone World

This course explores the limitations, functions, and capacities of language through postcolonial and comparative lenses. We will investigate the relationship between language and nation or language and identity, and explore forms of language such as tongue, discourse, and corporeal language. Sources will include critical texts, narratives, and film from Sartre, Fanon, Lê, Lafèrriere, Chraibi, among others. Students will gain the tools and perspectives to question the language(s) we speak, write, interpret, choose and exclude.

Maximum Enrollment

Standard Course (40)

Prerequisite

One 300-level course; or instructor’s permission

Offered

Spring