College Bulletin 2015-2016 
    
    Oct 31, 2024  
College Bulletin 2015-2016 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

LITR 017FB. First-Year Seminar: Forms of Exile in Literature of French Expression


Exile can be a multi faceted transnational, cultural, political, social journey, which often affect the vision of the here and there of individuals and populations seeking a better life, some type of asylum, a change of landscape, etc. Through readings of (poems, prose, plays, songs, etc.) French writers and artists from the Hexagon and beyond, we will examine issues such as freedom, resistance, social identity, dreams, hopes, differences, transfer of roles, displacement, abandonment, borders, memory, creation, etc., as expressed by Apollinaire, Baudelaire, DuBellay, Césaire, Hugo, Kacimi, Lahens, Levi-Strauss, Ollivier, Saint-John-Perse, Schwarz-Bart, Tadjo, Verlaine, among others.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Fall 2015. Rice-Maximin.
Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Literatures in Translation  
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/modern-languages-literatures


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