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Class number:
3430
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Title: Francophone Ghost Stories |
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Department: Language and Culture Studies |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 19 |
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Current enrollment: 6 |
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Available seats: 13 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 6, 2022 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 21, 2022 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM, SH - T121 |
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Instructor(s): Calhoun, Doyle |
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Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: C- or better in French 247, 251 or 252 or permission of instructor. |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities and Global Requirements |
Course Description:
Ghosts are part of modern life. The ghost, sociologist Avery Gordon reminds us, is simply a form by which something lost, or barely visible, makes itself known to us. This seminar focuses on ghostly and otherworldly narrators who tell their story from beyond the grave. During the semester, we will encounter narrators who have drowned, exploded, or been devoured by sharks: narrators whose spectral voices provide ghostly supplements to histories of slavery, colonization, gender violence, clandestine migration, and terrorism. In addition to literature and film, we will read key theoretical texts on the uncanny, haunting, African cosmogonies, and narratology. "Ghost Stories" explores how phantom narrators unsettle our understanding of narration and how literature helps us to reckon with what modern history has rendered ghostly. |
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Course Syllabus:
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