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FRN 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Contemporary Queer Women’s Writing in French

4 credits (Spring)
Conducted in French. Examines strategies of resistance, empowerment and subversion made possible through writing. Focuses in particular on the relationship between queerness and linguistic and narrative innovation. The course will cover topics such as gender, sexuality, desire, trauma, productive violence, performativity, (dis)identification, and the writing of the self. Authors studied may include Leduc, Wittig, Blais, Brossard, Causse, Francois, Pruvot, Maroh, Garréta and Bouraoui.

Prerequisite: FRN 312  or FRN 313 .
Instructor: Kosnick