FREN 580/880 The Modern French Imperial Imagination

Books

All books are available at the Student Bookstore, on the Corner. Feel free to purchase them in France or online if you think it is to your advantage.

Liauzu, Claude. Colonisation: droit d’inventaire. Paris: Armand Colin, 2004. ISBN 2200264348.

Bancel, Nicolas, Pascal Blanchard, Françoise Vergès. La République coloniale: essai sur une utopie. Paris: Armand Colin, 2003. (édition poche: Hachette literatures, 2003. ISBN 201-279300-2.)

Girardet, Raoul. L’idée coloniale en France de 1871 à 1962. Paris: La Table Ronde, 1972. JV1811.G53 (édition poche: Hachette Littératures, ISBN 2012792502)

Cartier, Henri. Comment la France ‘civilise’ ses colonies. Paris: Les nuits rouges, 2006. ISBN 2-913112-29-3

Césaire, Aimé. Discours sur le colonialisme. Paris: Présence Africaine, 1955. (édition Poche, Présence Africaine, 2001, ISBN 2708705318)
           
Hodeir, Catherine et Michel Pierre. L’exposition coloniale. Paris: Editions Complexe, 1991. ISBN 2870273827.

Hergé. Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter du Petit “Vingtième” au Congo. 1930. (Photocopy available at Copy Shop, Elliewood Ave.)

Photocopied documents

available through Instructional Toolkit

"Action coloniale et mentalités indigenes (Algérie, Madagascar)." Congrès international et intercolonial de la société indigene (5-10 octobre 1931). Paris: Exposition Coloniale Internationale, 1931.

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.

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.

Colonna, Fanny. “Educating Conformity in French Colonial Algeria.” In Tensions of Empire, ed. Frederick Cooper and Ann Stoler. Pp. 346-370.

“La connaissance des mentalités indigenes (Algérie, A.O.F.)” Congrès international et intercolonial de la société indigene (5-10 octobre 1931). Paris: Exposition Coloniale Internationale, 1931.

Cooper, Nicola. « Making Indochina French. » in France in Indochina : Colonial Encounters. New York : Berg, 2001. 43-63.

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.

Ferry, Jules. Discours prononcé à la Chambre des deputes: le 28 juillet 1885, “Les fondements de la politique coloniale” http://www.assembleenationale.fr/histoire/Ferry1885.asp

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.

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.

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.

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.

Merle, Isabelle. “Retour sur le régime de l’indigénat: genese et contradictions des principes répressifs dans l’empire francais.” French Politics, Culture, and Society 20:2 (June 2002): 77-100.

Meyer, “Hanoi: Ombres et Lumières,” in La Vie quotidienne des Français en Indochine 1860-1910. 189-222.

Plan de documentation pour aider à l’élaboration d’études ethnographiques, CAOM, BIB/SOM C/BR/10019.

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.

Slavin, David. “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.

Films

Jacques Feyder, L’Atlantide (1920)
Edmond Gréville, La Princesse Tam Tam (1935) DVD 05625, VHS 5318
Georges Manue, Terres arrachées à la mort (1936) [personal collection]
Jacques de Baroncelli, L’Homme du Niger (1940) VHS 6563
René Vautier, Afrique 50 (1950)
Alain Resnais and Chris Marker, Les statues meurent aussi (1953)
Ousmane Sembène, Le camp de Thiaroye (1987) VHS 10066, VHS 12511
Brigitte Rouan, Outremer (1990) VHS 6445
Régis Wargnier, Indochine (1992) DVD 2766
Rachid Bouchareb, L'ami ya bon (online)

Assignments

· Participation 30%
· Exposés 20%
· Response papers 10%
· Research paper 40%

Exposés

Each week, one member of the class will be responsible for presenting and contextualizing the reading/viewing material and leading discussion.

Response papers

Each week you will hand in a 1-2 page written response to the readings assigned for the week. These papers will not receive grades as such, but I will make the following distinctions:
Y indicates that the work is good, solid, thoughtful work
+ indicates that the work is particularly original or exceptional
- indicates that the work appears hasty, superficial, or otherwise leaves considerable room for improvement

Research paper

Each student will be required to complete a substantial research paper, 20-25 pages, double spaced, 1-inch margins, Times New Roman Font, correct and consistent Chicago or MLA Style citations. There are two possible paper types for this course.

1/Original research essay based on primary sources. To complete this project, you will identify a primary source or sources from which you feel you can develop an argument that will contribute to the field of scholarship on the French colonial imagination. You will present the source and the thesis, explain how it complements existing scholarship, and demonstrate the validity of the argument based on information from the primary source(s) and from complementary secondary sources.

2/Literature review essay. To complete this project, you will identify a subfield of French colonial studies that you wish to explore in depth. You will review the scholarship in that field and write an analytical essay explaining the development of the field based on these sources. Students will be expected to go beyond mere summary of sources and to present the material in terms of a synthetic and coherent argument.