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 course 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 or the equivalent. Fall semester: Professor Katsaros.
Section 01
M 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM FAYE 217
W 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM FAYE 217
This is preliminary information about books for this course. Please contact your instructor or the Academic Coordinator for the department, before attempting to purchase these books.
| ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discours sur le colonialisme suivi de Discours sur la Négritude | Présence africaine, 2004 | Aime Cesaire | Comment: | Amherst Books | TBD | |
| Black-Label et autres poèmes | Poésie Gallimard, 2011 | Léon Gontran Damas | Comment: | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.