L0643 - CIVILIZATION OF FRENCH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES

courses
ID:
L0643
Duration (hours):
54
CFU:
8
SSD:
LETTERATURA FRANCESE
Located in:
PESCARA
Url:
MODERN LANGUAGES FOR MANAGEMENT AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION/CORSO GENERICO Year: 1
Year:
2025
Course Catalogue:
https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Overview

Date/time interval

Primo Semestre (01/10/2025 - 15/01/2026)

Syllabus

Course Objectives


This course explores the cultural and social universe of the Maghreb through the unique voices of several French-speaking women writers from this region. Drawing on a body of representative works, the aim will be to analyze the representation of the female condition in Maghreb societies, the complex links between language, memory, and identity, as well as writing as a space of resistance, memory, and self-affirmation. The course will also highlight the tensions between tradition and modernity, between the intimate and the political, which run through these narratives at the intersection of literature, history, and gender.

Course Prerequisites


Participation in this course requires: An advanced level of French, allowing the student to read complete literary works, to follow instruction in French, and to produce oral and written analyses. Familiarity with critical approaches to gender and women's studies, as well as an openness to interdisciplinary perspectives (literature, sociology, history, cultural anthropology). Previous experience in the analysis of narrative and/or poetic texts, particularly with regard to themes, narrative voices, linguistic choices and writing strategies.

Teaching Methods


The course adopts a literary, critical and intercultural approach, based on the following methods: Courses in French, with a presentation of the historical, cultural and literary context of the texts studied; Analytical readings and guided commentaries of the works (complete or excerpts), in connection with the themes of the program; Group discussions around the issues raised by the texts: gender, language, memory, power, tradition, etc. The active involvement of students is encouraged throughout the semester in order to develop their critical thinking, their analytical skills and their ease in oral and written expression in French.

Assessment Methods


The final assessment will consist of an oral exam in French. Students will be expected to demonstrate a sound understanding of the historical and cultural context of the French-speaking Maghreb, in relation to colonial, postcolonial, and diasporic dynamics. They will also be assessed on their ability to analyze literary texts in French, using thematic and stylistic interpretation tools. Particular attention will be paid to critical reflection on the connections between writing, gender, identity, and power, as well as the quality of written and oral expression. During the course, students will have the opportunity to write a report (between 6 and 10 pages, in French) devoted to a female author or a cross-disciplinary issue addressed during the semester. This written work will be supported by methodological guidance and may be presented orally.

Texts


G. Giansante, Choix de voix féminines dans la littérature contemporaine du Maghreb, Paris, Lys Bleu, 2025.
Pendant les cours, les textes que nous analyserons seront mis en ligne sur Moodle.
Béatrice Didier, L’écriture-femme, Paris, PUF, 1991.
(free reading​​​​​​​: https://archive.org/details/lecriturefemme0000didi_l9g1/page/6/mode/2up)

Students who are unable to attend the course will need to add the following texts:
Rita El Khayat, La femme artiste dans le monde arabe, Paris, éd. De Broca, 2011.
https://books.google.fr/books?id=mEdZFcbrwHAC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Contents


Women's Writing from the Francophone Maghreb: Identity, Gender, and Memory
The course is divided into two complementary units, each of which explores Maghreb and Francophone women's literature in its historical, thematic, and stylistic richness.
Unit 1 – Women's Voices: Themes, Styles, Perspectives. We will read and analyze works by major women authors from the Maghreb and West Africa, in their entirety or as excerpts. Each text will be studied for its literary specificities, but also as a singular and collective voice, at the intersection of history, gender, memory, and language.
Unit 2 – Cross-Curricular Themes. The final unit will explore cross-cutting issues that unite these diverse voices: The French language as a space of fracture and freedom: writing in French to express the unspeakable; The female body as a social and political territory: a place of control, but also of resistance and liberation; Collective memory and alternative history: female narrative versus national or patriarchal narrative; Migration and diasporic identity: multiple belongings, cultural tensions, transnational space.

Course Language


French language

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