Search Results for international Francophone studies

...Jonathan K. Gosnell [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 language pedagogies experiential learning intercultural communication international Francophone studies Sa bouche est plus douce que la crème, Mais la...

... major coursework in French starting from the second year. Upon the completion of my master’s program in International Affairs, also at Sciences Po, I enrolled in a course on postcolonial literature offered by Harvard Summer School. Studying the works of Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Kateb Yacine...

...Arnaud Perret As we move beyond the twentieth century and the direct effects of colonialism and postcolonialism, we might ponder the relevance of consistently linking or comparing newer cultural productions to historically hegemonic systems. In essence, French and Francophone studies could...

... that incorporate politics and international relations. This helps us better understand the impact of both globalization and the current cultural transformations on Maghrebi cultures and societies. Francophone studies can also be overly focused on certain regions or countries while neglecting other...

... was surprised. As a third-year graduate student, my experience with the world of academia is limited, and I am no expert on the progression of French and Francophone studies through the years. Yet considering the future of this field of study also led me to consider some questions about my own future: What am I...

... teaching practices. It seemed necessary for French studies teachers to take into consideration all aspects of the colonial system and the ways they still impact former colonized territories. The popularization of the new designation of “French and Francophone studies” signals an important shift. French...

... and US academy. What we see in Romanic Review was also reflected in other journals devoted to French / Romance literatures. This landscape changed in the mid 1980s when a number of specialized journals of postcolonial and / or Francophone studies were founded. I am thinking, for instance, of French...

... isolation that sometimes characterizes academic work. In our international collaborations, US-based scholars in French and Francophone studies are well placed to mediate between different intellectual and academic cultures, to recognize the cultural specificity of our own scholarly norms and approaches...

... Soleils des indépendances, while also serving as a reminder of the enduring critical and methodological dilemmas that hover at the border between French and Francophone studies. (DAWN FULTON, Smith College) ...

...Souleymane Bachir Diagne Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Souleymane Bachir Diagne 1968: CRISIS IN AFRICAN LETTERS T he year 1968 marks, without doubt, a critical moment in African Francophone literature. Two novels published that year bear testimony that indeed...

..., was for twenty years chancellor of Brown University. The mansion served as the Sharpe family home for decades, before being donated to the university in 1985. Since then, it has housed Brown’s Department of French and Francophone Studies and Department of Hispanic Studies, and carried the name Rochambeau House...

... of French and Francophone Studies.' This book grew out of a workshop and conference held at the University of California Humanities Research Institute in 1996 and 1997. The origin is reflected in the diversity of the essays, which address a wide range of historical periods and cultural and political...

... this discovery of the troubadours’ ambiguous fate in relation to the French canon, I have learned to see “Frenchness” as a dynamic cultural and historical inheritance, influenced by philology, literary history, and national politics. Whether French and Francophone studies becomes institutionally housed...

... in the same way that the French language "disappeared" from Algeria in the 1990s. These parallel disappearances could be said to evoke, in the case of the former, the murders of many Francophone intellectuals during the violence of the decennie noire, and in the case of the latter, strict Algerian Arabization...

..., no identify theft, no system failure to make you regret how masterful you became in the art of delaying. Until it does not, and you are left staring at a blank screen, wondering why nothing works anymore. This is exactly the moment where we are in French and Francophone studies. The academic landscape...

... presented at the Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium at California State University in Long Beach, in March 2012 (184). 7. Maboula Soumahoro’s Le Triangle et l’Hexagone offers a perfect source for such critical examination. Works Cited...

... of Testimonios in the French Caribbean," International Journal of Francophone Literatures vol 3.3, Fall 2000. 370 PASCALE DE SOUZA In Moi, Tituba Sorciere Noire de Salem Conde challenges the marronniste myth and denounces the selfish objectives of certain maroons. In her novel, Tituba's mother and her guardian...

... premiers auteurs francophones du Maghreb et de ceux de l'Indochine. Africains et Antillais al'[nstitut d'ethnologie L'Institut d'ethnologie de Paris est fonde en 1925. C'est une petite structure interne a la Sorbonne, qui a partir de 1927 delivre un certificat d'ethnologie valable pour la licence es...

... in the social and political spheres, and her sexual liaison with the controversial politician Ibrahima Sory. It also puts into relief the role of language and power in the classroom and the community, thus echoing the pedagogical concerns that remain central to the field of postcolonial Francophone studies...

...Emily Apter Copyright © 2003 The Trustees of Columbia University 2003 Emily Apter CONDE'S CREOLITE IN LITERARY HISTORY Drawing on a wide range of theories of literary history and geography, I want to consider how the Creolophone/Francophone novel and, in particular, Maryse Conde's fiction...