TOPICS II

The New World has fascinated France since the first French travelers arrived here in the 16th century, eventually creating the francophone Americas. Beginning with explorers and indigenous peoples in Canada, this course then moves through colonization and revolution in the United States and Haiti and finishes with contemporary literature from both the Caribbean and Quebec, with a diversion by way of Lucky Luke comics and other French fantasies of "le far West." By considering the various meanings and uses of the New World in French thinking, the class explores the ways French writers have mapped out their places and cultures in the Americas. Prereq: Fr 307D. Priority will be given to students who have not yet taken an In-Perspective course.
Course Attributes: EN H; BU Eth; AS LCD; AS LS

TOPICS II

FRENCH 322

Section 01

Section 02