HISTORY OF FRANCOPHONES CULTURE
- Academic year
- 2024/2025 Syllabus of previous years
- Official course title
- STORIA DELLA CULTURA DEI PAESI FRANCOFONI
- Course code
- LT0440 (AF:381300 AR:286936)
- Modality
- On campus classes
- ECTS credits
- 6
- Degree level
- Bachelor's Degree Programme
- Educational sector code
- L-LIN/03
- Period
- 2nd Semester
- Course year
- 3
- Where
- VENEZIA
- Moodle
- Go to Moodle page
Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
It is particularly aimed at students in the French track (literature and/or French language three-year degree), but can also be usefully taken by students with different language backgrounds who are interested in issues related to colonization and postcolonial cultures. It can also be usefully taken as a free-choice area subject by students of postcolonial literatures (Anglophone or Spanish-speaking) in the LLEAP master's degree.
Expected learning outcomes
Pre-requirements
Contents
Referral texts
- Aimé Césaire, Cahier d’un retour au pays natal, 1956
- Patrick Chamoiseau, Texaco, 1992
- Mariama Bâ, Une si longue lettre, 1979
- Agota Kristof, Le grand cahier, 1986
- Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies, 2006
- Sony Labou Tansi, La vie et demie, 1979
Secondary literature
- Ferroudja Allouache, Archéologie du texte littéraire dit “francophone”. 1921-1970, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2018.
- Henri Frédéric Amiel, « Du mouvement littéraire dans la Suisse romane et de son avenir » [1849], Essais critiques, Paris, Sandre, 2006.
- Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large. Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
- Jean Bernabé, Patrick Chamoiseau, Raphaël Confiant, Éloge de la créolité, Paris, Gallimard, 1989.
- Jean Bernabé, « La Créolité, vingt ans après », Caliban, n°31, 2012, URL :
https://journals.openedition.org/caliban/353
- Pascale Casanova, La République mondiale des Lettres, Paris, Seuil, 1999.
- Christiane Chaulet-Achour, Les francophonies littéraires, Paris, Presses universitaires de Vincennes, 2016.
- Yves Clavaron, Francophonie, postcolonialisme et mondialisation, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2018.
- Dominique Combe, Littératures francophones. Questions, débats et polémiques, Paris, PUF, 2010.
- Jérôme David, Spectres de Goethe. Les métamorphoses de la “littérature mondiale”, Paris, Les Prairies ordinaires, 2012.
- Michel Le Bris, Jean Rouaud et Eva Almassy, Pour une littérature-monde, Paris, Gallimard, 2007.
- Fabien Pillet, Multiculturalisme et littérature. Mises en récit de la diversité ethnoculturelle, Genève, MétisPresses, 2021.
Assessment methods
It will test the student's ability to independently formulate a description/interpretation of the proposed passages, emphasizing the most significant textual aspects of the themes addressed, as well as the ability to then freely extend these acquisitions to the three novels of his choice.
The examination - oral only - is basically divided into two parts:
(a) one or more general questions based on the prezen;
(b) questions on one or more of the three novels chosen as integral readings, the content and even essential formal features of which must be shown to be known (i.e., what was explained in class, or observations based on at least one of the in-depth critical excerpts, from among those provided by the lecturer)
Teaching methods
Teaching language
Further information
Students will still be able to take the exam by presenting the syllabus displayed on the web: more precisely, the updated syllabus to be found, at the end of the year, in the teacher's personal notices.
Non-attending students may take the examination by presenting the syllabus on the web, supplemented by some readings that will be indicated to them; they are therefore requested to contact the lecturer in advance.