FREN 70.04 Pourtours mystiques
In ‘Récits méditerranéens, pourtours mystiques II,’ we will focus on first-person narratives (ficitional and non-fictional, fictive and fictionalized) from across the modern Mediterranean Francophone world: Lebanon, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. We will unravel the mystical underpinnings that subtend the politics of autobiography, autofiction and autoportraiture in texts by Tahar Ben Jelloun, Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida, Assia Djebar, Edmond Jabès, Abdelkébir Khatibi, Amin Maalouf, Abdelwahab Meddeb, and Salah Stétié.
Instructor
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Prerequisite
A course in the
FREN 10 series or permission of the instructor.