French 341CF - Courses in Francophone Studies: 'France Beyond the Mirror: The Image of France in Contemporary Francophone African Literature and Film'

The relationship between colonizer and colonized is two-fold: on the one hand a visible, immediate (military, economic, and political) domination, and on the other, a more subtle, less visible (ideological) domination. These will be explored through texts (literature and films) representing both the metropolitan and the native, from the colonizer's point of view. This course will discuss first how, through its writers and filmmakers, France projected itself onto the imagination of colonized Africans and second, how, in response, Africans appropriated the pen and the camera to convey their perception of their French experiences with the metropolitan Other.

Prereq: Two of the following courses: FREN-215, FREN-219, FREN-225.