French-language theater and cinema in Canada reflect the social and political changes of the last forty years. This course will examine how performance reveals gender construction and gender roles, as well as attitudes toward sexuality and sexual difference. In addition to analyzing plays and films by Francophone Canadians in English translation, we will also see how immigrant playwrights dramatize different social and religious attitudes toward sex and gender. Among the authors to be studied: Marie Savard, (Mine Sincerely), Denise Boucher (The Fairies Are Thirsty), Brossard et al (A Clash of Symbols), Dussault (Mommy), Laberge (Night), M. Tremblay (La Duchesse de Langeais, Hosanna), L. Tremblay (The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi), Bouchard (Lilies), Dubois (Being at Home with Claude), Farhoud (The Girls of the Five and Dime), Micone (People of Silence, Addolorata). Texts and films in English, knowledge of French is useful.
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