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Why is a Mayan food, chocolate, such a high-stake product in French-speaking countries ?
When it arrived in Paris in the XVIIth century, chocolate constituted a medical and cultural catalyst on French social elites, and, to this day, still carries the heavy weight of its colonial past. In this course, students will explore the economic, historical, social, political
鈥淭ell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are鈥 鈥揃rillat-Savarin
While food sustains life, it also gives it meaning. This course will focus on how the culture of food and eating has played an important role in the construction of the religious, national, ethnic, and individual identities of the French-speaking world. How have migration and the realities of
French literature and film have always reciprocally inspired one another 鈥 as early as 1897, Lumi猫re represented the main characters of Hugo鈥檚 Les Mis茅rables. This course will offer students the opportunity to analyze literary representations of women and their film adaptations in terms of intermediality and intertextuality. Adaptations will include: La Princesse de Cl猫ves
Viewed from the outside, the French-speaking world offers enticing images of beauty, pleasure, and freedom. From the inside, however, it is a complicated, often contradictory world where implicit codes and values shape the most basic aspects of daily life. This course will give you an insider鈥檚 perspective on a cultural and communicative system whose ideas, customs, and
