Unit name | Race in France: Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives |
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Unit code | FREN20038 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. Shilton |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of French |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit looks at perceptions of race and culture in France from the eighteenth century to the present. It focuses primarily on visual material, including painting, photography, postcards, exhibitions, bande dessinée and advertising. Images are often studied alongside texts, including extracts from literature, journalism and political speeches.
The unit is organised around three axes:
Examples of topics to be discussed are exoticism, Orientalism, primitivism, colonialism, immigration and postcolonial identities.
Aims:
Successful students will:
Normally one lecture hour and one seminar hour per week across one teaching block (22 contact hours), often with student presentations. In units with a smaller number of students the lecture hour may be replaced by a second seminar or a workshop. Units involving film may require students to view films outside the timetabled contact hours.
A written assignment of 2000 words and a two hour exam (50% each)
Ezra, E. 2000. The Colonial Unconscious: Race and Culture in Interwar France (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press)
Frader, L. & H. Chapman (eds). 2004. Race in France: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Difference (Oxford: Berghahn)
Hargreaves, A. 2007. Multi-ethnic France: Immigration, Politics, Culture and Society (London: Routledge)
Silverman, M. (ed). 1991. Race, Discourse and Power in France (Aldershot: Avebury)
Silverstein, P. 2004. Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation (Bloomington: Indiana University Press)
Guiral, P. & Temime, E. 1977. L’Idée de la race dans la pensée politique française contemporaine (Paris: Editions du CNRS)