Conflict and Social Change: Women Writers in French

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TAUGHT IN FRENCH: This course will focus on major contemporary women writers from across the French-speaking world. Students consider how cultural, political and social conflicts uniquely affect women in various geographical areas such as France, Western and Northern Africa, the Caribbean, French Polynesia, Canada. On conflicts such as migration, anticolonial environmental activism, gender and tradition, reproductive rights, transmission of slavery and its memory, we learn how women use their voice to deconstruct dominant socio-cultural perceptions and put their voice in the service of social change.