| Course Title: Courses in Francophone Studies: 'Paris dans l'Imaginaire Africain' |
| Start Date: 01/28/2025 End Date: 05/13/2025 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2025 |
| Description: The relation between colonizer and colonized is two-fold. On the one hand, we have a visible, concrete and immediate form of domination. It is military, economic, social and political. It constrains the body. On the other hand, we have the ideological, less visible, subtler and yet more destructive colonization: that of the mind. This course will have two components: First, we will briefly summarize how, through its educational system and its major narratives (textbooks, essays, literature, and film) the colonizer constructed and controlled both his own image and that of its "silenced" colonized other. Second, we will more substantively explore how, after WW1, through the early 1960s, the colonized, breaking his silence, used "the barrel of the pen" and the camera to account for his own lived experiences of the "Metropole" (Paris and France as a whole). |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , LANG - Language , SI - Speaking-Intensive , WI - Writing-Intensive , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Samba Gadjigo | 413-538-2255 | sgadjigo@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/28/2025 - 05/13/2025 | Seminar | Monday | 01:30PM - 04:20PM | TBA | TBA | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: Two courses in French at the 200 level. | Take previously | Required |
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| Cross-listed Sections |
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| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Closed | Capacity: 016 | Enrollment: 16 | Available: 0 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| To be determined. |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class. |