FREN 415 - Surréalisme et francophonie

FC ARHU CD

4 credits
This course will analyze surrealism in the Francophone world. We will examine (a) the characteristics of surrealist poetics and aesthetics; (b) the relationship between surrealism and politics, specifically with regard to imperialism and colonialism; and (c) the evolutions and transformations of surrealism in the work of Francophone authors and artists. We will ask: In what ways does surrealism resist and/or advance colonialist interests? In what ways do Black and Brown Francophone artists change surrealism to make it their own? And finally, what is surrealism? Is it a historical movement that appeared in Paris in the 1920s, or is it something else-a mode of existing in the world, even a kind of ethics? Taught in French.

Prerequisites: two 300-level courses in FREN (beyond FREN 301).

This course is cross-listed with CMPL-415