Mothers and Daughters (FR-0179)

Fall 2023 · FR 0179 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

Examination of relationships between mothers and daughters as portrayed in literary genres from autobiography to memoir to autofiction in the works of 20th- and 21st-century French women writers. The mother-daughter relationship from historical, sociological, existential, feminist, colonialist, and post-colonialist perspectives. Readings may include Sido by Colette, Enfance by Nathalie Sarraute, Une mort très douce by Simone de Beauvoir, Une femme by Annie Ernaux, and Impasse Verlaine by Dalie Farah. In French. Recommendations: FR31 and FR32 or instructor permission.

Course codes: FR-0179, FR 0179, FR0179, FR-179, FR 179, FR179

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