| Description |
1 online resource (181 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: Exploring Identities/Exploring the Self: French Literature and Women's Studies in the Twenty-First Century; 1. Why Teach (French) (Women's) Literature?; Why Study Literature?; Why Study Literature in French?; Why Study Women's Literature in French?; Coda; Notes; References; 2. Fractured Families: Program Growth through Innovative Teaching of French and Francophone Women's Autobiographies; Why Fractured Families?; Notes; References |
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3. Worldwide Women Writers and the Web: Diversity and Digital PedagogyThe Person behind the Text: Image and Intonation; Cultural Differences: Reading the Other; Learning the Language: From Text to Screen; Literature as a Response to Human Experience: Genre; Literature as a Response to Human Experience: Activism; Juxtapositions: Diversity and Proximity; Note; References; 4. "Representing the Self ": Contemporary French Lit Meets the Twenty-First-Century Student; The Reading List: Pros and Cons of Student Choice; Assessment: Group, Objective, Individual, and Creative Assignments |
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Looking Back, Moving ForwardNotes; References; PART II: New Beginnings, New Horizons: Women Writers in Beginning and Intermediate French Classes; 5. Teaching French and Francophone Women Authors Online; Changing Perceptions; Idea for the Course; Course Development; Description of the Course and the Students; Discussion Threads; Conclusion; Notes; Appendix: Course Units, Readings, and Lectures; References; 6. Integrating Women's Voices and Contemporary Cultural Materials through E-journaling; Approaching Culture; Engaging Students through E-journaling; Integrating Women's Voices |
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Learning Outcomes of E-journalingNotes; References; E-journal Resources; 7. Linking Beginner and Advanced Language Learners through Images of Women; Preliminary Considerations: The Gap in Contemporary Language Teaching; Textual Possibilities for the Advanced Literature Class; Coming Full Circle: Connecting Advanced and Beginner Learners; Notes; References; 8. Building Bridges from Language to Civilization through Gisèle Pineau's Un Papillon dans la cité; Theoretical Underpinnings; The Course; References |
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PART III: Colonial and Postcolonial French Women Writers: Teaching Diversity on Shifting Ground9. Peoples, Authors, Protagonists: Teaching Francophone Women Authors through Gender Identity Themes; Syllabus Week 1: General Background; Syllabus, Weeks 2-5: From Acadian to "Cajun" and Return, 1755-80; Syllabus, Week 6: Condé's Drama of Black Revolution, 1789-1802; Syllabus, Weeks 7-9: Quebec from Church to Factory, 1892-1918; Syllabus, Weeks 10 and 11: The Perils of Independence, West Africa after 1960; Syllabus, Weeks 12 and 13: Caught between Africa and France, Mainly Paris in the 1970s |
| Summary |
This volume investigates how teaching practices can address the changing status of literature in the French classroom. Focusing on how women writing in French are changing the face of French Studies, opening the canon to not only new approaches to gender but to genre, expanding interdisciplinary studies and aiding scholars to rethink the teaching of literature, each chapter provides concrete strategies useful to a wide variety of classrooms and institutional contexts. Essays address how to bring French Studies and women's and gender studies into thetwenty-first century through intersections of autobiography, gender issues and technology; ways to introduce beginning and intermediate students to the rich diversity of women writing in French; strategies for teaching postcolonial writing and literary theory; and interdisciplinary approaches to expand our student audiences in the United States, Canada, or abroad. In short, revisiting how we teach, why we teach, and what we teach through the prism of women's texts and lives while raising issues that affect cisgender women of the Hexagon, queer and other-gendered women, immigrants and residents of the postcolony attracts more openly diverse students. Whether new to the profession or seasoned educators, faculty will find new ideas to invigorate and diversify their pedagogical approaches |
| Notes |
Syllabus, Week 14: Overview of Feminist Authorial Strategies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
French literature -- Women authors -- Study and teaching
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French language -- Study and teaching.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Modern -- General.
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EDUCATION -- Language Experience Approach.
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Algeria.
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Alzheimer's disease.
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American Women's Lives.
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Arab Spring.
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Assia Djebar.
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autobiography.
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Christine de Pisan.
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Contemporary French Literature.
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childhood.
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colonialism.
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criminal justice.
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digital pedagogy.
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diversity.
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Existentialist Writers.
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E-portfolio.
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educators.
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Francophone culture.
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Francophone women.
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François Ozon.
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French classroom.
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French studies.
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faculty.
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family.
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feminism.
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film.
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Gisèle Pineau.
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gender.
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gender studies.
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genre.
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Hélène Cixous.
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interdisciplinary studies.
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intermediate language.
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Jazz Fiction.
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Jezebel.
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journals.
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LGBTQ.
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LGBTQ+.
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Marie Darrieussecq.
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Marie Nimier.
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Music of Paris.
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multiculturalism.
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narrative.
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Oceanian Women Writers.
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pedagogy.
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political power.
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postcolonial literature.
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postcolonial studies.
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queer studies.
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queer theory.
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race.
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Simone de Beauvoir.
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selfies.
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sexuality.
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teaching literature.
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technology.
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Un Papillon dans la cité.
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university.
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Women's Voices.
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WWII.
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women's studies.
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8 Femmes.
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French language -- Study and teaching
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Johnston, Joyce
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| LC no. |
2018035619 |
| ISBN |
9780429681240 |
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0429681240 |
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9780429681233 |
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0429681232 |
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9780429681226 |
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0429681224 |
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9780429400001 |
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0429400004 |
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