FREN 301 Arab Francophone Works

An introduction to late twentieth-century Francophone literary works (short stories a novel poetry) and films from the Levant (Lebanon Syria) and North Africa (Egypt Tunisia Algeria. and Morocco). The course underlines the diversity of this part of the world the various ways French is used and its relation to the native tongue-Arabic. Questions of cultural/national identity are also examined. Among authors read are Joyce Mansour (Egypt) Amin Maalouf (Lebanon) Tahar Ben Jelloun (Morocco).