FREN 3975
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Classes
FREN 3975
Course Description
Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2020-2021.
This course examines how African writers, filmmakers, and internet media content creators engage with and revise public images of bodies—specifically pleasure, gender, queerness, genital surgeries, sex strike, etc. Our inquiry also surveys African theorists' commitment in highlighting forms of agency on the continent in addition to troubling longstanding and problematic colonialist tropes of pathologization of Africans. These topical explorations will be achieved through analyses of storytelling, digitality, the aestheticization of violence, and social change theories. Through contemporary films, digital platforms, novels, and essays, we will reflect on the precarious, yet empowering, nature of the body in the post-independence African experience. Public speaking (class discussions, student presentation) and deep attention to writing (reaction papers, an abstract, and annotated bibliography, and a final paper) will help you to refine your understanding of body politics.
When Offered Spring.
Distribution Category (GLC-AS, LA-AS, SCD-AS)
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 3977, COML 3977, ENGL 3977, FGSS 3977, SHUM 3977
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Online Meeting
- Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
Instructors
Diabate, N
- R Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3330
- Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
Instructors
Diabate, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid-Online and In Person
This course has two required meeting days.
Enrollment limited to students who are able to attend in-person classes in the Ithaca area.
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