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Francophonic Literature

Course code

GRR7211.HT

old course code

Course title in Estonian

Frankofoonne kirjandus

Course title in English

Francophonic Literature

ECTS credits

6.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester

Ülo Siirak (language of instruction: French)

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

Ability to understand the place of francophonic postcolonial literatures in the frames of the world literature, their relations with the metropol and the complicated cultural problematics of acculturation

Brief description of the course

Universalism and relativism in the relations with cultural „other“. The ideology of colonialism (Pierre Loti). Postcolonial literary theory. Multiculturalism, acculuration, hybridity. Maghreb’s literature. T. ben Jelloun, A. Memmi. M. Dib. Etc. Black Africa’s literature. A. Césaire. L.S. Senghor. Negritude.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- has knowledge about the main problems of colonial and postcolonial literature in the context of acculturation
- has ability to analyse literary works with the methods of contemporary postcolonial theory;
- has capacity to link the above mentioned questions with religious, ideological and cultural multiplicity in contemporary world.

Teacher

Ülo Siirak

Prerequisite course 1

French B2.2 (LCF6322.HT)

Study programmes containing that course