French 380 - TOPC: CULTRL ST-FRANCE IN AMER

Fall
2019
01
4.00
Jonathan Gosnell
TTh 02:45-04:00
Smith College
10022-F19
HATFLD 105
jgosnell@smith.edu
Topics course: What is l’Amérique française? What is the nature of the French-American relationship, historically and today? During recent Franco-American culture wars, France and the United States seemed to be polar opposites. Yet at one time, people in New England and Louisiana spoke French, lived and laughed in French, cried and died in French. Must French now be translated in America? Through what cultural mechanisms is Frenchness expressed by Americans? In what language(s) does one write French America today? We will answer such questions in our exploration of the French experience of North America from the 16th to the 21st century.
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