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| LROM0186-1 | Questions in francophone African literature
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Holder(s) : | Danièle Latin |
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| Language : | Langue française |
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| Course contents : | This course (30 hours) will take place during the second four-month period, as of February 2009, in room 4/9 of the Department of Romance Languages and Literature, on Mondays, from 12:00 to 14:00. For this academic year, it will be designed as an introduction to African literature and cultures.
It focuses mainly on the problems and looks at a certain number of issues relating to the positioning of African literature written in French, from countries south of the Sahara. However, the course does not exclude the possibility of exploring literature from the French West Indies and Haiti. On the other hand, the course will not directly deal with North African literature.
The theme running through the course will be: black Africa and French-speaking literature
The following issues will be dealt with:
First part (a) General Introduction:
- Outline of the historical and sociolinguistic situations of the French-speaking world of the South
- French in black Africa: language and literature problems
- Second part: emerging African literature
- The unifying movement of negritude
- The works of Léopold Sédar Senghor, Aimé Césaire and Léon Gontran Damas
- African and French-speaking literary critique
A third part (c) includes an introduction to the study of the African novel and literary modernity |
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| Course objective : | The aim of the course is to initiate participants in the literary expression of African cultures (and more broadly from the South) in the French language and in the sociological processes that govern the forms of legitimation of a type of literature in the position of postcolonial-type cultural domination. |
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| Prerequisites : | To make the most of this course, students must have a good general knowledge of the history of 20th century French literature. Class attendance is compulsory. |
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| Workshops : | In-depth reading of the poems of Léopold Sédar Senghor.
Reading and report on a novel (according to list) |
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| Organization : | Second four-month period (starting in February 2009)
See http://cipl82.philo.ulg.ac.be/horaires |
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| Written notes : | Students will be offered a syllabus providing a chronology and critical elements as well as a choice of texts. They will have to acquire a modern novel themselves, which they have chosen from a selective list proposed to them.
In relation to the issues raised in this course, students will be able to gain a lot from consulting the following websites:
http://www.bdlp.org/
Pan-French-speaking lexicographical database
http://www.unice.fr/ILF-CNRS/ofcaf/
Le français en Afrique Review of the "Réseau des Observatoires du Français contemporain en Afrique"
http://www.refer.sn/ethiopiques/
"Ethiopiques". A negro-African review on African literature and philosophy
http://www.critaoi.auf.org/
Network of CRITAOI researchers, online database of critical texts on French-speaking literature from Sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean |
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| Assessment : | The oral assessment concerns all the material covered in class. The written piece of work, which students must submit before the end of the course, is part of the overall assessment and goes towards the final grade. |
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| Contacts : | E-mail: Daniele.Latin@ulg.ac.be |
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| Remarks : | A special section on African literature is available in the Department of Romance Languages and Literature library. |
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