FREN 580/880 Schedule

Required readings are required. Additional readings listed are for those who want to pursue the subject of the week further.

Part I/ Writing the history of empire

17 janvier/ Introduction

25 janvier/ Écrire l’histoire coloniale

Required: Blanchard, La République coloniale (Student Bookstore)
Additional: Stoler/Cooper, Tensions of Empire, Introduction (Toolkit)

31 janvier/ Histoire coloniale I

Required: Liauzu, Colonisation: droit d'inventaire (Student Bookstore)
Additional: Aldrich, France Overseas; Conklin, A Mission to Civilize (on reserve)

7 février/ Histoire coloniale II

Required: Girardet, L'idée coloniale en France (Student Bookstore)
Required: Ferry, Discours prononcé à la Chambre des députés: le 28 juillet 1885, “Les fondements de la politique coloniale” (Toolkit) http://www.assembleenationale.fr/histoire/Ferry1885.asp
Additional: Sarraut, La mise en valeur des colonies françaises (on reserve)
Additional: Horne, Janet. “In Pursuit of Greater France: Visions of Empire Among Musée Social Reformers, 1894-1931.” In Domesticating the Empire: Race, Gender, And Family Life in French and Dutch Colonialism. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998. 21-42. (on reserve)

Part II/ Constructing the empire: networks of power

14 février/Peasants into Frenchmen: colonial education

Required: Cooper, Making Indochina French (Toolkit)
Required: Colonna, Fanny. “Educating Conformity in French Colonial Algeria.” In Tensions of Empire, ed. Frederick Cooper and Ann Stoler. Pp. 346-370. (Toolkit)
Required: Action coloniale et mentalités indigenes (Algérie, Madagascar). Congrès international et intercolonial de la société indigene (5-10 octobre 1931). Paris: Exposition Coloniale Internationale, 1931. (Toolkit)

21 février/Constructing knowledge: colonial science

Required: Sibeud, Emmanuelle. “’Negrophilia’, ‘Negrology’, or ‘Africanism’? Colonial Ethnography and Racism in France around 1900.” In In Promoting the Colonial Idea: Propaganda and Visions of Empire in France. Ed. Tony Chafer and Amada Sackur. New York: Palgrave, 2002. 156-167. (Toolkit)
Required: Benoît de l’Estoile, "Rationalizing Colonial Domination: Anthropology and Native Policy in French-Ruled Africa." In Empires, Nations, and Natives. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2005. 30-57 (Toolkit)
Required: “La connaissance des mentalités indigènes (Algérie, A.O.F.)” Congrès international et intercolonial de la société indigene (5-10 octobre 1931). Paris: Exposition Coloniale Internationale, 1931. (Toolkit)
Additional : Plan de documentation pour aider à l’élaboration d’études ethnographiques, CAOM, BIB/SOM C/BR/10019. (Toolkit)

Part III/Selling the empire: images and image-making

28 février/Colonial propaganda

Required: Lemaire, Sandrine. “Manipuler: La Conquête des Goûts.” In Culture Impériale: les colonies au Coeur de la République, 1931-1961. Paris: Editions Autrement, 2004. 74-91. (Toolkit)
Required: Goerg, Odile. “The French Provinces and ‘Greater France’.” In In Promoting the Colonial Idea: Propaganda and Visions of Empire in France. Ed. Tony Chafer and Amada Sackur. New York: Palgrave, 2002. 82-101. (Toolkit)
Film: Terres arrachées à la mort (in class)
Images: "L'empire et ses mythes," "L'organisation de la propagande," "Jeux et jouets," "Les expositions coloniales," in Images et colonies: Iconographie et propagande coloniale sur l'Afrique française de 1880 à 1962 (Paris: BDIC, 1993). 98-110, 113-139. (Toolkit)

7 mars /CONGÉ

14 mars/Expositions

Required: Hodeir, Catherine et Michel Pierre. L’exposition coloniale. Paris: Editions Complexe, 1991. (Student Bookstore)
Required: Ezra, Elizabeth. “Colonialism Exposed: Miss France d’Outre-Mer, 1937.” In Identity Papers: Contested Nationhood in Twentieth-Century France. Ed. Stephen Ungar and Tom Conley. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 1996. 50-65. (Toolkit)
Required : “ne visitez pas l’exposition coloniale” (click here)
Additional: Ageron, “L’exposition coloniale 1931.” In Les lieux de mémoire. (Toolkit)
Additional: Morton, P.A. Hybrid Modernities: architecture and Representation at the 1931 Colonial Exposition, Paris. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. (on reserve)
Additional: Lebovics, “The Seductions of the Picturesque” in True France: The Wars over French Identity, 1900-1945. 51-97. (on reserve)

21 mars/NO CLASS; reaction paper to films due in box outside my office door (CAB 352)

Films: L’Atlantide; La Princesse Tam-Tam (on reserve)

28 mars/Colonial film and popular culture

Required: David Slavin, “Heart of Darkness, Heart of Light: The Civilizing Mission in L’Atlantide.” In Identity Papers: Contested Nationhood in Twentieth-Century France. Ed. Stephen Ungar and Tom Conley. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 1996. 113-135. (Toolkit)
Required: Hergé, Tintin au Congo (1930). In Archives Hergé, tome 1. Casterman, 1973. 183-293 (The Copy Shop).
Additional: David Slavin, “French Colonial Film Before and After Itto: From Berber Myth to Race War,” French Historical Studies 21, no. 1 (1998), 125-155.

Part IV/Domesticating the empire: colonial families/colonial cultures

4 avril/Colonial society, colonial families, colonial leisure

Required: Conklin, Alice. “Redefining ‘Frenchness’: Citizenship, Race Regeneration, and Imperial Motherhood in France and West Africa, 1914-1940.” In Julia Clancy-Smith and Frances Gouda, ed. 65-83, 286-293. (Toolkit)
Required: Ann Laura Stoler, “Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and Sexual Morality in 20th-Century Colonial Cultures.” American Ethnologist 4:3 (1989): 635-. GN1.A53 (Toolkit)
Required film: Outremer (on reserve) [Additional film: Indochine (also on reserve; I assume most of you have seen it)]
Additional: Meyer, “Hanoi: Ombres et Lumières,” in La Vie quotidienne des Français en Indochine 1860-1910. 189-222. (Toolkit)
Additional: Meyer, “Saigon des années 1870-1900,” in La Vie quotidienne des Français en Indochine 1860-1910. Paris: Hachette Littératures, 1985. 68-104.
Additional: Jennings, “From Indochine to Indochic: The Lang Bian/Dalat palace Hotel and French Colonial Leisure, Power, and Culture.” Modern Asian Studies 37,1 (2003): 159-194. (click here)

Required: Falgas, Geneviève. Images to be shown in class.

Part V/In the shadows of empire

11 avril/Lecture on the French in India by Faith Beasley

18 avril/Code de l'indigénat and colonial violence

Required: Merle, Isabelle. “Retour sur le régime de l’indigénat: genèse et contradictions des principes répressifs dans l’empire français.” French Politics, Culture, and Society (June 2002) (en ligne )
Required: Liauzu, Claude and Josette Liauzu, “Violence coloniale et guerre d’Algérie,” in Claude Liauzu (ed.) Violence et colonisation”pour en finir avec les guerres de mémoire. Paris: Editions Syllepse, 2003. 119-148. (Toolkit)
Film: Le camp de Thiaroye (on reserve); Rachid Bouchareb, L'ami ya bon (on line)

25 avril/Dissent and colonial legacies

Required: Césaire, Aimé. Discours sur le colonialisme. Paris: Présence Africaine, 1955. (edition Poche, presence Africaine, 2001, ISBN 2708705318) (Student bookstore)
Required film: Alain Resnais, Les Statues meurent aussi (on reserve; it's on the Hiroshima mon amour DVD; Disc 2 additional material)
Additional: Cartier, Henri. Comment la France ‘civilise’ ses colonies. Paris: Les nuits rouges, 2006. ISBN 2-913112-29-3 (Student bookstore)
Additional: Brun, Oriane et Magali Jacquemin, “René Vautier et la colonisation: un cinéma d’art et d’engagement,” in Claude Liauzu (ed.) Violence et colonisation”pour en finir avec les guerres de mémoire. Paris: Editions Syllepse, 2003. 107-117. (Toolkit)Additional film: René Vautier, Afrique 50;
Additional: Derrick, Jonathan. “The Dissenters: Anti-Colonialism in France, c. 1900-1940.” In Promoting the Colonial Idea: Propaganda and Visions of Empire in France. Ed. Tony Chafer and Amada Sackur. New York: Palgrave, 2002. 53-68.