FREN 435 - Bienvenue? Hospitality as Resistance in French and Francophone Literature

FC ARHU CD

4 credits
This course will consider how citizens that are engaged in various modes of hospitality disrupt normative global spaces. These subjects of the world, activate alternatives for navigating national, visual, and linguistic barriers of their respective cultural and political worlds, what Alec Hargreaves et al. (2005) similarly note as transnational French spaces. These subjects also engage with what Irina Aristarkhova calls “micro courtesies” or actions and attitudes within hospitality that affect social change and well as the limits of hosting traditions in her monograph Arrested Welcome (2020) as they relate to contemporary influences of globalization upon French metropole and non-metropole spaces. In this course, we will examine these questions and more as they relate to contemporary literature in French. Through our study of theatre, novels, and film, we will also explore how medium impacts each work. Taught in French (with some supplemental readings in English); students are expected to read and communicate in the target language. Open to all French majors and minors.

Prerequisites: FREN 301 or FREN 302 or FREN 309.