FREN 320 Francophone Women Writers

Prerequisite: FREN 207 or FREN 208 or permission of the department chair. Students will examine works by contemporary women writers from the French-speaking world, including North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and North America, and consider how questions of gender and race are experienced and expressed by these women. Topics of discussion will include marriage and polygamy, slavery, and racial difference.