Summer 2011 Graduate Courses
1. G45.9002
Applied Phonetics & Spoken Contemporary French
Staff- 4 points
Concepts of phonetic description, review of French phonetics (basic phonemes, syllabification, intonation, rhythm, pauses, etc.) with special emphasis on the specific problems encountered by English-speaking students. A study of expressiveness in the spoken language.
2. G45.9991
Topics in Francophone Civilization: Francophone Routes: Narratives of travelling cultures
Prof. Dash- 4 points- This course can also count as an Institute of French Studies course. Conducted in French.
As cultures become increasingly detached from territories, diasporic communities emerge as exemplary spaces of cultural production. Modern Francophone Caribbean culture is no exception. The Haitian community abroad is so substantial and dynamic that it is officially termed the Tenth Department. Similarly, departmentalization of the French Antilles has facilitated the creation of what is called la troisieme ile in Paris. The course will consist of readings of theoretical texts on cultures in motion, diasporic identities as well the poetics of errancy in novels from Haiti and the French West Indies which the concept of ‘litterature-monde’ has attempted to describe. Creolisation is now rethought on a global scale as new orders of difference, unprecedented hybrid identities and unforeseen global networks of inter-relating are generated in what Edouard Glissant calls “un metissage sans limites”. Essays by James Clifford, David Beriss, Edouard Glissant, Stuart Hall and Michel Laguerre will be used to theorize diasporas.
3. G46.9810
Socio-Political Violence in Contemporary France:
Prof. Emmanuel Fureix- 4 points- This course is an Institute of French Studies course. Conducted in French.
Since the French Revolution and the “Terror,” socio-political violence has been closely connected in the French national imagination. Violence was, at least until the Commune of Paris (1871), a privileged modality of conflict resolution, so much so that this violence often came from the State or protesting groups. Yet, in the two centuries since the Revolution, a progressive pacification between the social and political seems to have taken place. This does not mean, however, that collective violence has disappeared. With the democratization of society, violence has simply changed and been transformed. This course explores a non-linear history of the uses of socio-political violence in contemporary France. We will consider civil violence in its many forms: revolutionary and insurrectional violence, political attacks, traditional rural violence, anti-industrial violence, counter-cultural violence, recent urban violence, the repressive violence of the State, and the political repercussions that ensue.
