FREN3471: Crossings and Crossroads: North African Film, Art and Literature

What happens when borders close and departure becomes impossible? Why do people risk everything on fragile boats to cross a perilous sea with no promise of arrival? How do France and Europe appear in the imagination of migrants and refugees? This course explores these urgent questions through films, political cartoons, short stories, graphic novels, a novella, poetry, plays and paintings from or about Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and France. Together, we will examine how artists and writers confront themes of exile, migration, identity, and belonging across the shifting landscapes of the Mediterranean. The class will be conducted in French. prereq: 3101W

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