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Duke - GEOGRAPHY OF CANADA

A regional geography of Canada; its physical features, topography, climate; the historic economic and social development of the regions; economic and cultural interactions among the regions. Crosslisted with Comparative Area Studies.
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Duke - NORTH AMER: NEIGHBORS/FUTURE

“North America: Our Neighbors, Our Future” examines a series of critical modern challenges facing the United States whose solutions may lie, at least partially, with Canada and Mexico. Energy, trade, border protection, drug trafficking, continental defense, immigration and the environment, among other topics, will be studied in a North American context. One aspect to be addressed is the seeming contradiction between the importance of our neighbors – our largest oil suppliers, our largest export markets, our largest drug suppliers – and our knowledge of them, which is usually extremely low and often, in the case of Mexico, often negative. Students will also consider whether further continental integration is possible or desirable.
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Duke - FRANCOPHONE CANADIAN THEATRE

French-language theatre 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 useful.
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Duke - SPEC TOPICS IN CAN STUDIES

The US-Canadian border and its literature is seldom theorized; border studies most often focus on the literatures and politics of the US-Mexico border. This course turns attention to the other border and considers the implications of reading Canadian writing as border literature in a North American context. We will read novels, poetry, and plays that construct a Canadian literary identity in relation to the many postcolonial forces at play in Canada, including those stemming from Canada’s former status as a British colony, its subsequent colonization of First Nations peoples, and its contemporary relationship of economic dependence to the United States. We will ask the following questions: in what ways is Canadian literature an ‘American’ literature? How does it change our understanding of American literature and its borders to think about Canadian literature in a North American context? How is the very idea of a sovereign national identity, literary or otherwise, a fiction? We will investigate the many answers to these questions suggested by well- and lesser-known Canadian texts from across the country with an emphasis on works by women, minority, and queer writers.
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Duke - HST OF FRENCH CANADA LIT//FILM

This course will explore the history of French Canada through its literature and culture. Tracing the development of French Canada from the seventeenth century to contemporary Quebec, the course will focus on the key themes of messianism, collective memory, ethnic identity, religion, language, nationalism, feminism, immigration, and multiculturalism as seen in fiction, poetry, theater, and film. We will examine texts on exploration, colonization, the Acadian Deportation of 1755, Conquest of 1759, the Patriots' Rebellion of 1837-38, Louis Riel and the Métis rebellion, Quebec nationalism and its impact on Francophones outside of Quebec. Authors and filmmakers to be studied may include Brian Moore (Black Robe), Louis Hémon (Maria Chapdelaine), Roch Carrier (La Guerre, Yes Sir!), Marie Laberge (It Was Before the War, Down at L’Anse-a-Gilles), Gabrielle Roy (The Tin Flute), Michel Tremblay The Sisters-in-Law), Denise Boucher (The Fairies Are Thirsty), Dany Laferrière (How to make Love to a Negro), Denys Arcand (The Decline of the American Empire, The Barbarian Invasions), as well as Acadian and Western francophone writers . Readings in English, but reading knowledge of French useful.
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