Course Description

FR437 The Power of Words in Québec Literature after 1960 0.5

This course provides a symbolical and structural study of the prose and poetry of contemporary "committed writers" such as separatists, revolutionaries, feminists and humanists. It also examines, through selected works, the beginning of decolonisation and the emergence of the new Québec collective identity.

Prerequisite: FR205* and FR213; or FR231 and one of FR237, FR304, FR336; or permission of the Department.

Exclusion: FR404.

Official electronic version updated on November 10, 2000

M. Watson, Editor