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Francophone Studies

North America, Africa, and the Caribbean

Our examination of the French-speaking world outside of France includes cross-disciplinary examinations of historical transmission. Questions of colonization, diaspora, immigration, identity, poverty, and exoticism offer different areas of investigation. Our studies of "French outside France"--that is, texts produced in French outside Europe and also cultural responses to the France and the French influence--are informed through postcolonial studies, transatlantic studies, and Mediterranean studies.

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