Contemporary Francophone Literature: Disordering Race and Gender in the Caribbean

3 units

A general survey of Francophone literature. This seminar examines representative texts of Quebec, Acadia, Africa, and West Indies. Authors to include Antonine Maillet, Louis Hémon, Michel Tremblay, Gérard Leblanc, Anne Hébert, Maryse Condé, along with the influential poets of négritude, Senghor and Césaire. This course counts towrds the seminar requirment for the major.