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Apr 24, 2024
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FREN 4025 - Afro Latin American and Louisiana Oral Traditions: West African Tales and their Transmission to the New World(SPAN 4025 , AADS 4025 ) A survey of oral traditions, the oldest form of literature in human society, and how they reflect the social, cultural, and economic structures of the civilizations from which they sprang, particularly in the diaspora of the western Hemisphere. Through the identification of primary characters and a study of the changing roles that they play within the creative expressions of societies they represent, course participants will gain insights into the representation of social realities through the symbolic development of characters in folk tales and their interactions. Taught in English. (3, EXP)
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