Spring Semester
Black Paris
French 597A, CMLIT597A,
HIST597A
Thursday, 1 to 3:45, 7A
Sparks
This interdisciplinary
graduate seminar focuses on the history of African, Caribbean, and
African-American people in Paris.
It includes both the role of the city within the writing, art, and
thought of the African diaspora as well as the impact of ParisÕs black
population on French cultural and political life from the 18th century to the
present. The seminar is open
to graduate students from any field as well as to undergraduate students in the
Schreyer Honors College. The only
pre-requisite is a reading knowledge of French.
Co-taught by professors of
French and Francophone Studies, Comparative Literature, and History, and
drawing on the expertise of visiting scholars from France and this country, the
seminar will introduce students to major issues in transnational writing, art,
music, and thought; colonial and post-colonial history and theory; integration,
citizenship, and identity;
histories of slavery, abolitionism, and revolution; theories of race and
colonialism; cosmopolitanism, pan-Africanism, Negritude, and crˇolitˇ;
migration during World War I and World War II, and developments in jazz and
modernist literature.
For more information,
contact Profs. Jennifer Boittin, jab808@psu.edu, Jonathan Eburne,
jpe11@psu.edu, or Thomas Hale, tah@psu.edu
The Black Paris
Interdisciplinary Graduate Seminar is sponsored by the Departmeant of French
and Francophone Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department
of History, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, and the Cultural Service
of the French Embassy.