Sylabus
1 Introduction : Francophone Literatures (Quebec, the Maghreb, sub-Saharan Africa, the Antilles and the Caribbean literature) 2 French/Francophone Literature : since Ronsard, Descartes, Voltaire ? 3 Ramuz, négritude, Kourouma, Creoleness 4 The Langage and the Writers 5-6 Patrick Chamoiseau : Solibo Magnifique 7-8-9 Quebec : Anne Hébert 10-11-12 Literature in the region of the Antilles
Anotace
The lecture presents the situation in francophone countries in Africa, America, Antilles and in the Middle East in the 20th and the 21st century from historical, cultural and literary point of view. The aim is to present the francophone literatures (Quebec, Maghreb, Sub-Saharan Africa, Antilles etc.) through the analysis of extracts from principal “classical” texts (Chamoiseau, Glissant, Césaire) as well as of texts by contemporary authors (Depestre, Mabanckou, Slimani, Kundera). A critical theoretical reflection – postcolonial theories – e.g. Edward Saïd (Orientalism, 1978; Culture and Imperialism, 1993), Gayatri Chakraworthy Spivak (Can the Subaltern Speak?, 1988), Homi K. Bhabha (The Location of Culture, 1994) or Bill Ashcroft (The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-colonial Literatures, 1989) and Jean-Marc Moura, Jean-Louis Joubert.
The main movements and tendencies, literary terms.
The lecture is held in French (C1-C2 level).