Spring 2024
French 203: Contemporary Francophone Literature
Instructor: Alain MabanckouStudy of Francophone African, Caribbean, Vietnamese, or Quebec literatures and cultures, with specific attention to issues of cultural contact, language, colonialism, anticolonialism, nationalism, resistance and dissidence, and postcolonial theory.
German 211: Postwar Literature
Instructor: Yasemin YildizStudy of major works by German-speaking authors writing since World War II. Examination of issues such as identity crises, nationalism and divided Germany, gender expectations, and social-political attitudes.