FREN 366 - Francophone Literature and Cultures

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)

Topic for 2014/15a: Education and Ideology in (Post)colonial Francophone Contexts. In this seminar, the theme of education in its various forms – indigenous, colonial, republican, postcolonial, formal, informal – serves as a focal point around which we can develop a discussion of the complex rapport that numerous cultures have built with the French language. In examining presentations of different modes in which children and young adults are nurtured in (post)colonial Francophone contexts, the course elaborates on the intricate relationship between ideology (colonial or other), culture (French/Francophone) and the nation. Mr. Swamy.

One 2-hour period.