Undergraduate Seminar: Travel, Exoticism, and Otherness. An Intercultural and Intermedia Perspective (18th–21st Centuries) 3304-1DZ3O-SL-044
The primary objective of this seminar is to analyze travel literature, texts structured around the trope of the journey, and works categorized as exotic literature (from the 18th to the 21st century) through the lenses of cultural alterity, interculturality, and intermediality. Additionally, the seminar is designed to equip students with the necessary methodologies and research skills required to successfully write their Bachelor’s thesis (praca licencjacka).
Selected Specific Topics:
Methodology of the Bachelor’s Thesis: Structural form, academic conventions, and critical source evaluation (primary and secondary sources).
Defining Key Theoretical Concepts: Conceptual frameworks surrounding cultural alterity, the exotic, intermediality, interculturality, myth, intertextuality, and related critical paradigms.
Textual Analysis of Selected Works: Critical readings including, among others, the works of J.-H. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, E. Fromentin, M. Vieuchange, A. de Musset, I. Eberhardt, A. Réveillaud de Lens, A. Djebar, Ch. Baudelaire, P. Loti, Tahar Ben Jelloun, and K. Adimi.
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Learning outcomes
Expected Learning Outcomes
Knowledge:
The student possesses an advanced knowledge of the terminology used within the humanities, with a specific focus on philological and literary studies.
The student has an in-depth understanding of the cultural, linguistic, and literary processes shaping the field.
The student has gained advanced knowledge of the history and culture of France and the Francophone world.
The student demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of cultural institutions and contemporary cultural phenomena in France and Francophone countries.
Skills:
The student is capable of efficiently utilizing diverse research sources and modern information technologies to retrieve, analyze, evaluate, select, and utilize information required for active course participation, formulating critical judgments based on these findings. The student independently and fluently consults a wide range of lexicographical and grammatical sources.
The student possesses advanced research skills, including the critical analysis of scholarly literature, the synthesis of divergent ideas and viewpoints, the selection of appropriate methodologies, and the design of research tools, enabling the development, presentation, and original resolution of complex problems necessary for academic debate and the drafting of their own research papers.
The student is able to perform a critical analysis and interpretation of various cultural artifacts (language, literature, art) by applying original and innovative methodologies to determine their meanings, social impact, and position within the historical-cultural process.
The student is skilled in formulating critical arguments regarding cultural artifacts, drawing upon both scholarly knowledge and personal academic experience, and is capable of presenting these viewpoints across various media formats.
Assessment criteria
Semester I:
Attendance (up to two unexcused absences permitted without penalty).
Active participation in class discussions.
End-of-semester exam / test.
Semester II:
Attendance (up to two unexcused absences permitted without penalty).
Active participation in class discussions.
Oral presentation.
Submission of the Bachelor’s thesis.
Bibliography
Le voyage en... (serie de Robert Laffont)
Valérie BERTY, Littérature et voyage, L'Harmattan, 2001.
Alain BUISINE, Norbert DODILLE, Claude DURCHET (dir.), L’Exotisme, Didier-Érudion, 1998.
Odile GANNIER, La littérature de voyage, Ellipses, 2001.
Jean-Marc MOURA, Lire l’exotisme, Dunod, 1992.
Jean-Marc MOURA, L’Europe littéraire et l’ailleurs, PUF, 1996.
Jean-Marc MOURA, Exotisme et lettres francophones, PUF, 2003.
Jean-Marc MOURA, La littérature des lointains : histoire de l'exotisme européen au XXe siècle, H. Champion, 1998.
Sarga MOUSSA, La Relation orientale. Enquête sur la communication dans les récits de voyages en Orient (1811-1861), Klincksieck, 1995.
Christine PELTRE, Atelier du voyage, Gallimard ,1995.
Cultures médiatiques et intermédialité dans les littératures sénégalaises. Enjeux culturels et écritures littéraires, de l’époque coloniale à la postmodernité, sous la dir. de I. Diagne, H.-J. Lüsebrink, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2020
Dialogues interculturels à l’époque coloniale et postcoloniale. Représentations littéraires et culturelles. Orient, Maghreb et Afrique Occidentale (de 1830 à nos jours), sous la dir. de Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Moussa, Sarga, Paris, Éditions Kimé, 2019