LIT161 AF - Africa in France: The French of African Descent Through Text and Film

Since the late 1960s, new generations of French citizens have emerged to redefine France and Frenchness. These new generations are French citizens whose parents or grandparents were originally from North Africa or sub-Saharan Africa, yet who grew up or were born in France, often in the suburbs of major French cities. This course will focus on their experience and more broadly the experience of being African in France in the 21st Century, an experience rooted in migration and colonial history between France and the African continent. Specifically, however, we will also examine the place this new generation occupies in France today through close readings of selected literary and critical texts and through a range of media, old and new, aural, and visual.

Offered: Occasionally

Credit: 1

Course Number: LIT 161 AF