FRE 5001: Francophone Children's and Adolescent Literature
In Francophone Africa tales, fables, epics, novellas and novels have often constituted privileged didactic tools for instructing children and adolescents about issues of ethics, collective truths, preferred oratory styles, traditional occupational, political, and religious organizations and for teaching them to devise principled strategies of adaptation to global changes. In this course, using French literary and filmic versions of representative African oral tales, we will engage in a series of conversations about the cultural theories of creation and the structures of justification of knowledge that they conceal. Because the texts are short, thus suitable for language programs, children’s and adolescent literature can strengthen students’ comparative/transcultural appreciation of the world for elementary, secondary, and college levels students. Course meeting times: M-F, 9:40 AM-12:40 PM Modules Week 1 (July 13-17) Francophone Tales and Fables Week 2 (July 20-24) Francophone Epic Tales Week 3 (July 27-31) Francophone Adolescent Novellas and Novels. More information coming soon.
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