FREN 115. Honors Seminar: Representations of Blackness in Francophone

(Cross-listed as BLST 115)
What is blackness in France? How can it exist as a category (whether real or imagined) in a space where race technically does not exist? In this course we will explore these questions through a close consideration of the cultural production including literature, visual art, history, culture, and politics emanating from or dealing with ‘Black France’. The texts presented/examined in this course will consider “race” as both fact and fantasy in socio-historical relationship between the metropolitan France, its DOM-TOM periphery and the wider French colonial empire. Taught in French.
Prerequisite: Advanced content course in French or instructor’s approval.
Humanities.
2 credits.
Eligible for BLST, GLBL-core.
Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: French and Francophone Studies
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/french-francophone-studies

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