Description
FREN 330. WOMEN WRITERS IN FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE LITERATURE. This course serves to introduce students to the lives and works of francophone female authors from 1800 to the present. Its articulation is as follows: 1. Prise de conscience: Madame de Sta?l (France, Switzerland) and Simone de Beauvoir (France), with a side glance at Virginia Woolf (Great Britain); 2. Childhood and formation: Christiane Rochefort (France) and Nathalie Sarraute (France, Russia); 3. Sexual awakenings and passion: Colette (France) and Marguerite Duras (France and Indochina); 4. Matriarchy and exile: Antonine Maillet (Canada). The last third of the course focuses on three authors ironically joined under the banner of ?French Feminism?: Luce Irigaray (Belgium), H?l?ne Cixous (Algeria), and Julia Kristeva (Bulgaria). This course fulfills the Information Literacy (IL) requirement for the French major. Prerequisite: French 300-level course or by permission. Offered periodically, semester course, three hours.