FRE275

Paris has long been an important space both for France's ambitious social and cultural visions and for the people who have been excluded by those same visions. In this course, we will study works from an array of media and genres-including novels, autobiographies, poems, films, photographs, paintings, music, historical narratives and philosophical texts-that reflect on the experiences of marginalized people and groups in Paris, from scandalous artists and writers to racial and sexual minorities, Resistance fighters, exiles, immigrants, and refugees. We will undertake a series of projects that will help us develop an alternative way of seeing Paris through the experiences of France's misfits. These projects will become part of a fictional guidebook we will produce together: The Misfit's Guide to Paris. Taught in English. GLAFC, Offered occasionally.

Global Affairs & Cultures (GLAFC)

All Years