Listed in: French, as FREN-340
Laure A. Katsaros (Section 01)
In the early years of the twentieth century, the French Colonial Empire stretched from Algiers to Antananarivo and from Hanoi to Cayenne. The Maghreb, French West Africa, French Equatorial Africa, the Indo-Chinese peninsula, and Madagascar all lived under French rule. This class will analyze the creation and dissemination of “colonial cultures” in the wake of French imperialism. From the early nineteenth century on, military conquest went hand in hand with the production of a diverse and wide-ranging colonial imaginary. Schoolbooks, colonial exhibitions, natural history museums, visual artefacts ranging from paintings to advertisements, literary works, songs, and films inspired by “Greater France” proliferated in French culture. Drawing from selected case studies, we will explore the many forms taken by the French colonial imagination. We will also examine critiques of colonialism, as well as strategies and modalities of resistance to the colonial imaginary. Conducted in French.
Requisite: One of the following--FREN 207, 208, 311 or equivalent. Fall semester. Professor Katsaros.
Section 01
M 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM CHAP 101
W 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM CHAP 101
F 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM CHAP 101
| ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greater France: A History of French Colonial Expansion | St Martin's Press, 1996 | Robert Aldrich | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Discours sur le colonialisme suivi de Discours sur la Negritude | Presence africaine, 2004 | Aime Cesaire | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Cannibale | Folio, 2000 | Didier Daeninckx | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.