FREN 017B. First Year Seminar: Forms of Exile in the Francophone World

(Cross-listed as LITR 017FB)
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.
Eligible for BLST
Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: French and Francophone Studies
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/french-francophone-studies

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