Bande dessinée and Graphic Novels of the Francophone World
The bande dessinée, the Francophone analog to comics, has evolved alongside art and youth culture to become a locus for expressions of sociocultural and aesthetic changes, as well as antiestablishment discourses. In the context of political and societal issues at stake in the francophone world such as social class, cultural diversity, and gender representation, this course will connect canonical comics (such as Topffer, Asterix and Tintin) with more current cutting-edge art forms including experimental graphic novels from Rwanda, Lebanon and Iran. Conducted in English. Texts in Translation.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Eligible for FREN, CPLT
The bande dessinée, the Francophone analog to comics, has evolved alongside art and youth culture to become a locus for expressions of sociocultural and aesthetic changes, as well as antiestablishment discourses. In the context of political and societal issues at stake in the francophone world such as social class, cultural diversity, and gender representation, this course will connect canonical comics (such as Topffer, Asterix and Tintin) with more current cutting-edge art forms including experimental graphic novels from Rwanda, Lebanon and Iran. Conducted in English. Texts in Translation.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Eligible for FREN, CPLT