DEPARTMENT OF EUROPEAN

LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

FRENCH STUDIES: PART 1

FREN 100/101

CULTURE, HISTORY AND

IDENTITY

2004-05 Culture Convenor: Alison Fell, Lonsdale B25a Ext. 93658 [email protected] Office Hours: Wed 10-11, Thurs 10-11

Tutors: Alison Fell François-Xavier Gleyzon, Lonsdale B22 Ext. 94698 [email protected] Olga Gomez, Lonsdale C11 Ext. 94739 [email protected] Christine Margerrison, Lonsdale B22 Ext. 94648 [email protected] Rosemary Rodwell, Lonsdale B22 Ext. 94648 [email protected]

This part of the First Year Part 1 course will look at key aspects of French identity. It will cover four broad topic areas: Studying Culture, The Legacy of Revolution, The Legacy of Occupation and The Legacy of Colonialism. Through consideration of films, texts and images, we will explore the importance of culture as a means of articulating a sense of individual and national identity, and the role of the past in contemporary understandings of ‘Frenchness’.

The course will be taught through lectures and seminar discussions. Fortnightly lectures will outline the different ways in which key historical moments in French history have been interpreted and instrumentalised. Weekly seminars will discuss individual texts in more detail. It is essential that you do the prescribed reading/viewing for the seminars and come well prepared.

*Make sure you regularly check the notice board (Part 1 mixing bay, B floor, Lonsdale). This is where you will find further information, handouts, the ‘Marseillaise’ dossier,

2 photocopies of the short stories, and any changes that may affect your timetable.*

Timetable Lectures: Tuesday 12, Every other week beginning Week One, Lonsdale Lecture Theatre

Seminars: FREN101 FREN101 FREN101 FREN100 FREN100

Films: Thursday 5, Weeks 1,8,11,17

Set Texts FREN101 students study the texts in French; FREN100 students study the texts in translation. Films are available in the Resources Centre if you are unable to attend the screenings. Films:  Le Goût des autres/The Taste of Others (2000) directed by Agnès Jaoui  Hiroshima mon amour (1959), written by Marguerite Duras, directed by Alain Resnais  Milou en Mai/May Fools (1989), directed by Louis Malle  La Haine/Hate (1995), directed by Matthieu Kassovitz Plays:  Yasmina Reza, Art (1994) Novels, Short Stories and other texts:  Albert Camus, ‘L’hôte’/ ‘The guest’ (1957) (photocopy provided)  Sembène Ousmane, ‘La Noire de…’/ ‘The Promised Land’ (1962) (photocopy provided)  Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder/The Search Warrant (1997)  Chantal Thomas, Les Adieux à la reine/Farewell My Queen (2002) [NB Read the following sections: ‘Prologue’ (pp7-

3 22), ‘16 juillet 1789’ (pp117-240) and ‘Vienne, janvier 1811’ (pp243-8)]  Versions of ‘La Marseillaise’ (photocopy provided)

Course Schedule WEEK LECTURE SEMINAR FILM

1 France: Past and Introduction Le goût des autres Present 2 Le goût des autres

3 What is culture? Reza, Art

4 Reza, Art

5 The Legacy of Chantal Thomas, L’Autrichienne Revolution: 1789 Les adieux à la reine 6 Chantal Thomas, Les adieux à la reine 7 The Legacy of ‘La Marseillaise’ Revolution: [+other Republicanism documents] 8 ‘La Marseillaise’ Milou en mai [+other documents] 9 The Legacy of Milou en mai Revolution: May ‘68 10 Milou en mai

11 Class Test Hiroshima mon amour 12 The Legacy of the Hiroshima mon Occupation amour 13 Hiroshima mon amour 14 The Legacy of the Modiano,Dora Occupation Bruder 15 Modiano, Dora Bruder 16 The Legacy of Camus/Ousmane Colonialism short stories

4 17 Camus/Ousmane La Haine short stories 18 The Legacy of La Haine Colonialism 19 La Haine

20 Class Test Essay consultation

Assessment The assessment for this course will consist of two essays and two class tests: 1 Summative essay. You will be given a list of essay titles relating to texts and topics covered during MICHAELMAS term only. It is to be done in two stages: a) An essay plan, to be handed in WEEK 8 of Michaelmas Term. This will consist of an introductory paragraph, bullet points and a bibliography on one side of A4. b) Writing up and submitting the essay, to be submitted WEEK 2 of Lent Term.

2 Class Test, Tuesday 12, Week 11, Lent Term. This is a one- hour, ‘mini’ exam, in which you will be expected to answer one essay-style question. NB. You are not permitted to write about the same text/topic for your essay and the class test.

3 Researched essay. In consultation with your tutor, you will decide on an essay question relating to texts and topics covered in LENT term only. You will be expected to do an appropriate amount of individual research in relation to the topic you choose. To be submitted WEEK 2 of Summer Term.

4 Class Test, Tuesday 12, Week 20, Lent TermReading List General Martin Cook (ed.), French Culture since 1945 (Longman, 1993) Malcolm Cook, Modern France: Society in Transition (Routledge, 1999)

5 Michael Kelly, French Culture and Society: The Essentials (OUP, 2001) Victoria Best, An Introduction to Twentieth Century French Literature (Duckworth, 2002) Martin Alexander, French History Since Napoleon (Arnold, 2000) William Doyle, The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2001 ) Peter Davies, France and the Second World War (Routledge, 2000) Bernard Droz, Les décolonisations (Seuil, 1996) Jacques Tarnero, Mai ’68 (Milan, 1998)

Le goût des autres Derek Robbins, Bourdieu and Culture (Sage, 2000) C. Darke, ‘Le goût des autres’, Sight & Sound 11:5 (2001), pp50-1. Les Cahiers du Cinéma, 544 (March 2000), p.82; 545 (April 2000), pp4-5. www.imdb.com/title/tto216787/externalreviews www.ecrannoir.fr/films/00/gout.htm

Art Noël Carroll, ‘Art and Friendship’, Philosophy and Literature 26:1 (2002), 199-206. Christiane Blot-Labarrère, ‘Yasmina Reza: Mesures de temps’ in Nouvelles écrivaines: nouvelles voix?, ed. Catherine Rodgers and Nathalie Morello (Rodopi, 2002), pp.269-85. Robert Schneider, ‘Yasmina Reza in a Major Key’, American Theatre 15:9 (1998), 12-15. Arthur Danto, ‘Art, from France to the US’, Nation 266:23 (1998), 28-31. Interview with Yasmina Reza in The French Review 75:5 (2002), 944-55. www.complete-review.com/reviews/rezay.art/htm www.complete-review.com/authors/reza.htm www.arlindo-correia.com/040203.html

6 Les adieux à la reine http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/thomasc/faremyq.htm Chantal Thomas, La reine scélérate (Seuil, 2003) Dena Goodman, Marie Antoinette: Writings on the Body of a Queen (Routledge, 2003)

La Marseillaise ‘La Marseillaise’ in Pierre Nora, Lieux de mémoire (Gallimard, 1984) http://www.adminet.com/marseillaise.html http://www.cndp.fr/lesScripts/bandeau/bandeau.asp? bas=http://www.cndp.fr/actualites/question/marseillaise/suite.ht m

Milou en mai Margaret Atack, May 68 in French Fiction and Film (OUP, 1999) Jacques Capdevielle, Mai 68 (Presses de la fondation nationale des sciences politiques, 1988) Keith Reader, ‘The symbolic violence of May 1968’ in R. Gunther (ed.), Violence and Conflict in Modern French Culture (Sheffield Academic Press, 1994) Philip French (ed.), Malle on Malle (Faber and Faber, 1993) http://www.forumdesimages.net/collection/htm/SELECTION/M AI/content.htm

Hiroshima mon amour Robert Crawshaw and Karin Tusting (eds.), Approaching the Text: Exploring French Text Analysis (Routledge, 2000) Renate Gunther, Marguerite Duras (Manchester UP, 2002) Jean Pierrot, Marguerite Duras (Corti, 1986) Marcel Oms, Alain Resnais (Ribages, 1988) Janine Ricouart (ed.), Marguerite Duras Lives On (UP of America, 1998)

7 Rebecca Pauly, ‘From Shoah to Holocaust: Image and Ideology in Alain Resnais’s Nuit et Brouillard and Hiroshima mon amour’, French Cultural Studies 3 (1992), 253-61. http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp? id=196&eid=317§ion=essay

Dora Bruder Alan Morris, Patrick Modiano (Berg, 1996) Katheryn Wright, ‘Patrick Modiano’, in W. Thompson (ed.), The Contemporary Novel in France (Florida UP, 1995) William Vanderwolk, Rewriting the Past: Memory, History and Narration in the novels of Patrick Modiano (Rodopi, 1997)

L’Hôte Peter Dunwoodie, Camus L’envers et l’endroit and L’Exil et le royaume (Grant & Cutler, 1985) English Showalter, Exiles and strangers (Ohio State UP, 1984) Judith D. Suther, Essays on Camus’s Exile and the Kingdom (Romance Monographs, 1980) Anthony Rizzuto (ed.), Albert Camus’s L’exil et le royaume (Paratexte, 1988) Jill Beer, ‘Le Regard: Face to face in Albert Camus’s L’Hôte’, French Studies 56 (2000), 179-92. Moishe Black, ‘Camus’s L’Hôte as a Ritual of Hospitality’, Nottingham French Studies 28 (1989), 39-52.

La Noire de… Belinda Jack, Francophone Literatures (OUP, 1996) Interview with Ousmane in French Cultural Studies, 6:2 (1995), 179-96. Carol Boyce Davies and Anne Adams (eds.), Ngambika: Studies of women in African literature (Africa World Press, 1986) www.modjourn.brown.edu/Cinetracts/CT14-15.pdf www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/02/03/cteq/black_girl.html

La Haine

8 Mathieu Kassovitz, Jusqu’ici tout va bien: scenario et photogrpahies autour du film La Haine (Actes Sud, 1995) M. Konstantarakos, ‘Which mapping of the city?: La Haine and the ‘cinéma de banlieue’ in P.Powrie (ed.), French Cinema in the 1990s (OUP, 1999) C. Tarr, ‘Ethnicity and Identity in the ‘cinéma de banlieue’ in French Cinema in the 1990s, op. cit. W. Higbee, ‘Screeing the ‘other’ Paris: Representations of the disadvantaged urban periphery in La Haine and Ma 6-T va crack-er, Modern and Contemporary France, May 2001. K Reader, ‘After the Riot’, Sight & Sound 5, Nov. 1995. G. Vincendeau, ‘Designs on the banlieue: Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine in S. Haywood and G. Vincendeau (eds.), French Films: Texts and Contexts (Routledge, 2000) Zissermann and C. Nettlebeck, ‘Social exclusion and artistic inclusiveness: the quest for integrity in La Haine, Nottingham French Studies 36 (1997), 83-98.

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