FREN 352               3 Credit Hours

Francophone African Drama & Poetry

This information is for second semester 2017/2018 academic year

Teacher responsible

Abdoulaye IMOROU

Availability

This course is available open to all visiting students but only as a second semester course.

Course Content

The aim of this course is to introduce students to the Francophone African Literature with a focus on the early 20^th Century through Poetry and Drama. Students will learn who were the “first” African writers in French, how they developed the Negritude. They will also learn to identify the specificities of their work by analyzing some texts.

Teaching

Classes will be a combination of lectures, discussions and/or group presentations.           

Formative Coursework

Students should be prepared to participate in class discussions, interim assessment, and undertake a final exam project.

Indicative reading

-       Léopold Sédar Senghor, Anthologie de la nouvelle poésie nègre et malgache de langue française, Paris, PUF, 1948

-       Aimé Césaire, Une tempête, Paris, Seuil, 1969

-       Lilyan Kesteloot, Les écrivains noirs de langue française. Naissance d’une littérature, Bruxelles, Presses universitaires de Bruxelles, 1963.

ASSESSMENT:

Interim Assessment                 (20%)

Class participation                  (10%)

End of Semester Exam           (70%)