FFS 348 - Modernism and its Discontents Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)
Topic for 2019/20b: Personal Politics in French-language Autofiction. Recent collective movements like #Metoo, #Balancetonporc, #Timesup, along with strategies like doxxing and leaking, have transformed the second-wave feminist mantra, “The personal is political” by demonstrating the direct political and commercial power—and the indelible risks—in the public disclosure of personal information.
There is a long tradition of literary writers disclosing personal information for various aesthetic and political ends. In this course, we study a range of French-language literary texts from the 20th and 21st centuries where the author uses autobiographical material to raise broader ethical questions or to illustrate specific political realities. We look at the different ways that writers articulate a politics of the personal through the literary lens, examining formal choices on the one hand, and the positions they espouse on the other. Authors may include Marguerite Duras, Assia Djebar, Annie Ernaux, Virginie Despentes, Edouard Louis. Anne Brancky.
One 2-hour period.
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