FRANCOPHONE LITERATURES

Professor

Degree Programmes and curricula

Equivalent courses for other degree programmes

Contents

Educational Goals

The main objective of the course is to introduce students to Francophone literatures (Creole-speaking - mainly Haitian - and African areas; Québec; Maghreb). The course will focus on the theme of slavery in Francophone literatures.

Requirements

Good knowledge of French language; really good ability to read French (reading comprehension).

Contents

The course will begin by examining Haitian literature in its historical development (anthological readings will be included). After some seminars on African, North African and Canadian French-speaking literatures, the course will focus on the theme of slavery in Francophone literatures.

Recommended Reading List

a)
Léon-François Hoffmann, Haïti, in Littératures francophones. II. Les Amériques, Paris, Éditions BELIN, 1998, pp. 7-85.
Léon-François Hoffmann, Littérature d’Haïti, Vanves, EDICEF/AUPELF, 1995 (capitoli e brani indicati : pp. 120-140, 147-165, 183-196, 221-245 e passim).
Ghislaine Rey, Anthologie du roman haïtien de 1859 à 1946, Sherbrooke, Naaman, 1882 (brani indicati : pp. 18-22, 35-36, 37-44, 45-50, 65-73, 82-86, 87-90, 97-98, 139-142, 159-161, 166-173, 178-183 )

b)
Louis Timagène Houat, Les Marrons, Paris, Ebrard, 1844 (una qualsiasi riedizione).
Édouard Glissant, Le quatrième siècle, Paris, Gallimard, 1964.
Léonard Sainville, Dominique, nègre esclave, Paris, Fasquelle, 1951 ; ried. : Paris, Présence Africaine, 1978.

c)
Marie-Christine Rochmann, L’esclave fugitif dans la littérature antillaise, Paris, Karthala, 2000 (pp. .5-8, 9-43, 45-75, 211-245, 383-388).
Régis Antoine, Paroles perdues de l’Indien et du Nègre marron, in : La littérature franco-antillaise (Haïti, Guadeloupe, Martinique), Paris, Karthala, 1992, pp. 13-33.
J. Picard et al., Ô fugitif (anthologie autour de la figure du marron), Le Gosier (Guadeloupe), Caret, 1999.
Gabriel Debien, Le marronnage, in Les esclaves aux Antilles françaises (XVIIe – XVIIIe siècles ), Basse-Terre et Fort-de-France, Soc. d’Histoire de La Guadeloupe et de la Martinique, 1974, pp. 411-469.
Yves Chemla, Le Quatrième siècle, in : Dictionnaire des Oeuvres des littératures de langue française (Couty et Beaumarchais), Paris, Bordas, 1994.
Carminella Biondi, «Le Quatrième siècle» ou la quête inaccomplie, in : C. Biondi – E. Pessini, Rêver le monde. Écrire le monde (Théorie et narrations d’Édouard Glissant), Bologna, CLUEB, 2004, pp. 43-51.
Elena Pessini, Introduzione, in: Édouard Glissant, Il quarto secolo, Roma, Edizioni Lavoro, 2003, pp.VII-XVIII.

Assessment

oral

Teaching Methods

Conventional (and: tape cassettes,CD, video tapes, DVD).

Teaching Language

French and Italian

Other information

Some other bibliographic references will be given subsequently.