F13 - Carib & Afrcn Lit/Cult Transla

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  General

  • News forum
  • La table française

    A  la table française,  on parle français avec

    des francophiles.

    Venez nous rejoindre, quel que soit votre niveau!

     

     

     

    à SHARPLES le mercredi à 18h00,

    en salle #5

  • Course Syllabus revised (Danticat's Farming of Bones) File
  • SYLLABUS

    LITR 077F/FREN 077 -- Fall 2013

    (subject to modification: revised September 29^th)

    All readings will be posted on MOODLE or sent via email in some cases.

    SEPTEMBER           

      4^th                              Intro course + Poems

    11^th                             Notebook of a Return to the Native Land + A Tempest + reaction paper

    18^th                              The Fourth Century + reaction paper

    25^th                              Between Two Worlds + reaction paper

    OCTOBER

      2^nd                             Lone Sun + reading notes

      9^th                     Crossing the Mangrove + reaction paper

    + Send in Home Essay via email and no later than October 12th

    •Tuesday 10^th      The Farming of Bones + Edwige Danticat’s talk                                                                                                     at  7:00PM

    Spring Break     Spring Break     Spring Break   Spring Break   Spring Break

    23^th                              The Raptors (The Devourers)  + reaction paper

    30^th                              Passages  + reaction paper

    NOVEMBER

      6^th                              In-Class Essay

    13th                             Juletane  + reaction paper

    20^th                              The Money Order + Film + reaction paper

    •27^{th     Thanksgiving + MRM at conference in Joburg : replaced on December 11th}

    DECEMBER

      4^th                      Film: Black Girl + reaction paper AND

                                              Students in French  will  report on the TEXT

    •11^th                Queen Pokou  + reaction paper

    ••12th              Class gathering @ 525 Elm Avenue or on campus

    WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18TH  FINAL ORAL EXERCISE

    2:00 to 5:00PM in  Kohlberg 318
    

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  September 2 - September 8

  Not available
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  September 9 - September 15

  • Aimé Césaire' s Discourse on Colonialism File
  • Callaloo: Aimé Césaire File
  • A.Césaire's Notebook of a Return to the Native Land File
  • *Césaire and Shakespeare: Two Tempests File
  • Aimé Césaire: Lost Body and Eshleman and Smith File
  • Note that if you have not read or are not familiar with Shakespeare' s The Tempest, do read the play in order to better understand A. Césaire's adaptation for a Black theater.

  • Corps perdu: A. Césaire / P. Picasso: French Texts File
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  September 16 - September 22

  • CLR James: The Atlantic Slave Trade File
  • Performing Caribbean Histories and Deraisons File
  • Time lines for The 4th Century by E. Glissant File
  • The Plantation Revisited: Mary Callagher File
  • The Caribbean as Imagined by ...: Michèle Praeger File
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  September 23 - September 29

  • Golden Bullets//Balles d'or: Guy Tirolien File
  • Second Vision... Julie Huntington File
  • Rethinking Rootedness... Kitizie McKinney File
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  September 30 - October 6

  • Lone Sun/ l'Isolé soleil: a Chart File
  • Rewriting the Césaires: Daniel Maximin... Ronnie Scharfman File
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  October 7 - October 13

  • Create Dangerously: Edwige Danticat File
  • Children of the Sea: Edwige Danticat File
  • Post Colonial...: Logiques Métissses: Introduction + article on Crossing the Mangrove File
  • Reading of The Farming of Bones by Edwige DANTICAT

    for Thursday, October 10th.

  • Interview of Maryse Condé File
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  October 14 - October 20

  Not available
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  October 21 - October 27

  • The Raptors : Marie Chauvet File
  • Les Rapaces: Marie Chauvet File
  • On Marie Chauvet: Myriam Chancy File
  • The US Occupation of Haiti File
  • Vodou in Haiti: Laennec Hurbon File
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  October 28 - November 3

  • Unfinished Journeys: Exile, Africanity,...By Martin Munro File
  •                               Hello hello,

    Please note the date of your final exercise for the semester:

    WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18TH from 2:00 to 5:00PM

                                         in Kohlberg 318

    micheline r-m

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  November 4 - November 10

  •                                 IN CLASS ESSAY

  •                                  2 REMINDERS

    1) Please remember that after fall break, you were to choose one article, by group of 3/4, and send it to everyone.Therefore, a total of 3 articles for each text/film studied. Choose your partners and the team does not have to remain the same for all the articles.

    2) Remember too that you are to read Evelyne Trouillot's Rosalie l'infâme/The Infamous Rosalietranslated by Marjorie Salvodon. This text will be used for your final exercise at the end of the semester. I have ordered two copies for McCabe and I have one copy to lend.

    Questions? Don't hesitate to contact me!           
    

    AND

    AND

    Please note the date of your final exercise for the semester:

    WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18TH from 2:00 to 5:00PM

                                         in Kohlberg 318

    micheline r-m

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  November 11 - November 17

  • Post Colonial Representations: Introduction, F. Lionnet File
  •                                          2 REMINDERS

    1) Please remember that after fall break, you were to choose one article, by group of 3/4, and send it to everyone.Therefore, a total of 3 articles for each text/film studied. Choose your partners and the team does not have to remain the same for all the articles.

    2) Remember too that you are to read Evelyne Trouillot's Rosalie l'infâme/The Infamous Rosalietranslated by Marjorie Salvodon. This text will be used for your final exercise at the end of the semester. I have ordered two copies for McCabe and I have one copy to lend.

    Questions? Don't hesitate to contact me!  

                                          AND

    Please note the date of your final exercise for the semester:

    WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18TH from 2:00 to 5:00PM

                                         in Kohlberg 318

    micheline r-m

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  November 18 - November 24

  • The Money Order (FILM) Page
  •                                          2 REMINDERS

    1) Please remember that after fall break, you were to choose one article, by group of 3/4, and send it to everyone.Therefore, a total of 3 articles for each text/film studied. Choose your partners and the team does not have to remain the same for all the articles.

    2) Remember too that you are to read Evelyne Trouillot's Rosalie l'infâme/The Infamous Rosalietranslated by Marjorie Salvodon. This text will be used for your final exercise at the end of the semester. I have ordered two copies for McCabe and I have one copy to lend.

    Questions? Don't hesitate to contact me!  

                                          AND

    Please note the date of your final exercise for the semester:

    WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18TH from 2:00 to 5:00PM

                                         in Kohlberg 318

    micheline r-m

  • THE MONEY ORDER, Sembene Ousmane File
  •  REMINDER!

    REMEMBER THAT THERE IS NO CLASS ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27TH; THE CLASS HAS BEEN MOVED TO DECEMBER 11th, with Queen Pokou by Véronique Tadjo.

    ...and have a good, restful, THANKS-GIVING holiday!

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  November 25 - December 1

  •                                          PLEASE NOTE
    

    1) Please remember that after fall break, you were to choose one article, by group of 3/4, and send it to everyone.Therefore, a total of 3 articles for each text/film studied. Choose your partners and the team does not have to remain the same for all the articles.

    2) Remember too that you are to read Evelyne Trouillot's Rosalie l'infâme/The Infamous Rosalie translated by Marjorie Salvodon. This text will be used for your final exercise at the end of the semester. I have ordered two copies for McCabe and I have one copy to lend in French and English.

                                          AND

    Please note the date of your final exercise for the semester:

    WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18TH from 2:00 to 5:00PM

                                         in Kohlberg 318

     REMINDER!

    REMEMBER THAT THERE IS NO CLASS ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27TH; THE CLASS HAS BEEN MOVED TO DECEMBER 11th, with Queen Pokou by Véronique Tadjo.

    ...and have a good, restful,

    THANKS-GIVING holiday!

     

  • Women's Poetry in Francophone Africa File
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  December 2 - December 8

  •                                          2 REMINDERS

    1) Please remember that after fall break, you were to choose one article, by group of 3/4, and send it to everyone.Therefore, a total of 3 articles for each text/film studied. Choose your partners and the team does not have to remain the same for all the articles.

    2) Remember too that you are to read Evelyne Trouillot's Rosalie l'infâme/The Infamous Rosalie translated by Marjorie Salvodon. This text will be used for your final exercise at the end of the semester. I have ordered two copies for McCabe and I have one copy to lend.

    Questions? Don't hesitate to contact me!  

                                          AND

    Please note the date of your final exercise for the semester:

    WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18TH from 2:00 to 5:00PM

                                         in Kohlberg 318

    micheline r-m

  • Women's Poetry from Francophone Africa File
  • REMINDER

    Reading and /or screening of LA Noire de... / Black Girl  by Sembene Ousmane

    The 3 French readers will report on the French text, and everyone watches and comments on the movie posted on Moodle.

  • Film: Black Girl = La Noire de … (Sembene, 1966) Page
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  December 9 - December 15

  • Women's Poetry from Francophone Africa File
  • Reine Pokou, by Véronique Tadjo and

    possible  SKYPE in class-visit with the author from Paris, France

  • Thursday, December 12th   

                      Class gathering  on campus

  •                                         Dear Class,

    I am asking you to please send me your proposals for the two exercises

    described below, so that I can give you the green light in order for you

    to get started.

    The deadline for sending these is Wednesday, December 11th or earlier.

    1)•For the oral part of your final exercise I am asking you to choose  a topic

    of your choice, and related to the various texts/films studied in the course

    this semester: you will each have 10 minutes maximum, and it can be

    accompanied by anything else you would think appropriate to make your

    point, such as video, music, etc. For Wednesday, December 18th, in K 318

    from 2:00PM to 5:00PM.

    2)• For the written part of your final exercise, you will write on The Infamous Rosalie and any other fiction text or texts read this semester: a maximum of

    4 pages (double space, 12 font Geneva), or what you think necessary to make

    your point. The form can be prose, poetry or a combination of both,

    accompanied by anything else you would think appropriate to make

    your point. Deadline to send this is Friday, December 20th.

    micheline @

                        office hours or

                        by appointment or

                        efemail or

                        610 328 86 80 or

                        610 543 24 67
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  December 16 - December 22

                                          

  • REMINDER:

    Dear Class,

    I am asking you to please send me your proposals for the two exercises described below if you  have not yet done so:

     1)•For the oral part of your final exercise I am asking you to choose  a topicof your choice, and related to the various texts/films studied in the coursethis semester: you will each have 10 minutes maximum, and it can beaccompanied by anything else you would think appropriate to make yourpoint, such as video, music, etc. For Wednesday, December 18th, in K 318from 2:00PM to 5:00PM.

     2)• For the written part of your final exercise, you will write on The Infamous Rosalie and any other fiction text or texts read this semester: a maximum of4 pages (double space, 12 font Geneva), or what you think necessary to makeyour point. The form can be prose, poetry or a combination of both,accompanied by anything else you would think appropriate to makeyour point. Deadline to send this is Friday, December 20th.

    micheline