FRE 466 Post-Colonial Identities: Tahiti
Our Capstone experience offers an immersion course based upon French and Francophone studies. In particular, we shall conduct research in the domain of representations of Tahitian culture and identities, which are historically shaped by French and European discourses, especially by colonial discourses [the phenomenon of the “colonial gaze”]. Students’ research will address the reclaiming of the colonial gaze through analysis of cultural and artistic productions, particularly in the ways they inform Tahitian identities in a post-colonial context.