- Docente: Maria Chiara Gnocchi
- Credits: 9
- SSD: L-LIN/03
- Language: French
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Culture and Language for Foreigners (cod. 0983)
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from Sep 30, 2024 to Dec 20, 2024
Learning outcomes
Students possess in-depth knowledge of the history and development of non-European francophone literatures, a with particular focus on the relationship between literary texts and the historical, artistic and linguistic context. Students know and can deal with practical methodologies for the analysis and interpretation of literary texts.
Course contents
From Francophone Literatures to World Literature. Conflict in language and narrative
This course will provide a basic knowledge about Francophone literatures and postcolonial studies, leading at the end of the course to a definition of Word Literature. A brief history of Francophone literatures in their diversity will be outlined, and the concept of F/francophone will be discussed and problematized.
We will then focus on three authors in particular: Assia Djebar, Kamel Daoud and Ahmadou Kourouma, for an in-depth look at issues related to language and narrative as they relate to conflict.
Students are asked to actively participate in class: part of the texts will be presented by the students themselves. They may also present authors and issues not touched by the main thread of the course. These presentations will be assessed and will contribute to the final grade.
The last part of the course will be devoted to writing, and in particular to writing critical reviews, of primary and secondary texts.
Readings/Bibliography
BIBLIOGRAFIA PROVVISORIA, COMUNE A TUTTI
Testi primari
A. Djebar, La Disparition de la langue française (qualsiasi edizione)
A. Kourouma, Allah n'est pas obligé (qualsiasi edizione)
K. Daoud, Meursault, contre-enquête (qualsiasi edizione)
Critica
MANUALE: Christine Ndiaye, Introduction aux littératures francophones. Afrique · Caraïbe · Maghreb, Montréal, Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2004
Disponible en full text en ligne: https://books.openedition.org/pum/10652
Jean-Marc Moura, Littératures francophones et théorie postcoloniale, Paris, PUF, se possibile l'ultima edizione
Dominique Combe, Littératures francophones : questions, débats et polémiques, Paris, PUF, 2019, p. 7-23, 37-41
Edward Said, Cultura e imperialismo: letteratura e consenso nel progetto coloniale dell'Occidente, Roma, Gamberetti, 1998, p. 7-20, 29-40, 87-105, 195-212
Silvia Albertazzi, La letteratura postcoloniale : dall'Impero alla World Literature, Roma, Carocci, 2013, p. 9-20, 75-81, 96-98
Benoît Denis et Jean-Marie Klinkenberg, La littérature belge: précis d'histoire sociale, Bruxelles, Labor, "Espace Nord", 2005, p. 19-62
Lise Gauvin, D'une langue l'autre. La surconscience linguistique de l’écrivain francophone, dans L'écrivain francophone à la croisée des langues, Paris, Karthala, 2009, <https://shs.cairn.info/l-ecrivain-francophone-a-la-croisee-des-langues--9782865377503-page-5?lang=fr>
Lise Gauvin, Glissements de langues et poétiques romanesques, "Littérature", n. 101, 1996, p. 5-24, <https://www.persee.fr/doc/litt_0047-4800_1996_num_101_1_2391>
Lise Gauvin, Statut de la parole et traversée des langues chez Assia Djebar, "Carnets", n. 7, 2016, <https://journals.openedition.org/carnets/908>
Robert Varga, Dictionnaire et norme dans Allah n'est pas obligé et Quand on refuse on dit non, "Roman 20-50", n. 73, 2022/1, <https://www.cairn.info/revue-roman2050-2022-1-page-99.htm>
Maria Chiara Gnocchi, Daoud entre Camus et Rushdie: intentions et implications de Meursault, contre-enquête, in Laura Brignoli (a cura di), Interartes. Diegesi migranti, Sesto San Giovanni, Mimesis, 2019, p. 97-116
Maria Chiara Gnocchi, La vendredinnade (im)possible de Kamel Daoud, "Revue italienne d'études françaises", n. 12, 2002, <https://journals.openedition.org/rief/9747>
Teaching methods
Lectures and seminars; presentations of authors and texts by students; workshop on writing techniques (reviews).
Assessment methods
For attending students:
In-class presentations (not necessarily all of them)
In-class discussions on texts presented either by the lecturer or by fellow students
Review workshop
In conclusion, written exam (open questions) and oral exam (discussion of the whole syllabus)
For non-attending students
Written and oral examination
Teaching tools
Power-point projections, documents uploaded on line.
Office hours
See the website of Maria Chiara Gnocchi
SDGs



This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.