FREN 045E. Le monde francophone: Représentation/mémoire/écopoétique de la plantation

What are the cultural products that fill in the breaks of history for those of us who have come out on this side of the Atlantic remade, remixed, anew? This course seeks to respond to all these questions "seen", "read", and "performed" through the vernacular traditions of Middle Passage-descended people in the Americas including the Francophone Caribbean. Equally, we will resignify these para-plantation extensions including swamps, mangroves, other waterways, as well as caves, hills, mountains, forests, jungles and other migratory spheres. These "non-spaces" delineate alternative "geographies" that run adjacent to the enclosed production of space created by the plantocracy and the ways in which they provide modes of transgression, fugitivity, and freedom struggle for the captured body against confinement, surveillance, and bare life logics. These miniscule movements lead to queer lines of flight including maroonage as well as desires for an in-betweenness or "elsewhere" where crossings, migrations, transgressions, transformations, and transmigrations scatter, leak, grow and flow.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Spring 2023. Staff.
Spring 2025. Smith.
Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: French and Francophone Studies  
Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/french-francophone-studies/courses#


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