Courses - Spring 2027
FREN499T
Special Topics in French Studies; The Question of Home in Francophone Middle Eastern Literature, Film, and Media
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prereq: FREN387
Focusing on Francophone literature, film, and other cultural forms from the Middle East and its diasporas, examines the question of home in relation to belonging, displacement, and identity. Exploring the poeticsand politics of home, we will consider how exile, war, migration,and loss reshape relationships to place, language, family, andcultural heritage, and how home is remembered, imagined, inherited, or reconstructed across borders and generations. Taught in French.
Focusing on Francophone literature, film, and other cultural forms from the Middle East and its diasporas, examines the question of home in relation to belonging, displacement, and identity. Exploring the poeticsand politics of home, we will consider how exile, war, migration,and loss reshape relationships to place, language, family, andcultural heritage, and how home is remembered, imagined, inherited, or reconstructed across borders and generations. Taught in French.
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